Category: R

The theory that certain responses provide reinforcement.  

A tendency to respond to test questions in characteristic ways that distort the interpretation of a person’s performance.  

A technique of behavior therapy in which the person is discouraged from making an accustomed response that is used primarily with compulsive rituals. Refers to the planned practice of inhibiting compulsive behaviors when exposed to a feared event or stimulus.  

When a response has already been conditioned to a stimulus, a new response can be conditioned to the original stimulus, thereby modifying the original response.  

Learning the pattern of movements leading to a goal.  

The ordering of a series of possible responses according to the likelihood of their being elicited by a given stimulus.  

A tendency to answer questions in an uncommon way, regardless of their content.    

An operant conditioning punishment procedure in which misbehavior is fined through already earned reinforcers.  

A preference for one or another response in a psychophysical experiment, independent of the stimulus situation.  

Any measurable reaction. A reaction by an organ, tissue or a person to an external stimulus. The way in which the body or part of the body reacts to a stimulus. For example, a nerve impulse may produce the response of a contraction in a muscle that the nerve supplies. A reaction, such as contraction…