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  2. Reinforcement - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, a student that receives attention and praise when answering a teacher's question will be more likely to answer future questions in class; the teacher's question is the antecedent, the student's response is the behavior, and the praise and attention are the reinforcements.

  3. Yes and no - Wikipedia

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    The word aye (/ aɪ /) as a synonym for yes in response to a question dates to the 1570s. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary , it is of unknown origin. It may derive from the word I (in the context of "I assent"); as an alteration of the Middle English yai ("yes"); or the adverb aye (meaning always "always, ever"), which comes from ...

  4. No-mind - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, in Sanskrit, the term is a compound of the prefix a- (for negation) and the word citta (mind, thought, consciousness, heart). In China, the term came to mean a state in which there was no mental activity, or a mind free of all discrimination and conceptualization (making it similar to the Buddhist Sanskrit term nisprapañca). [9]

  5. Idempotence - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, pressing Off is idempotent. Idempotence ( UK : / ˌ ɪ d ɛ m ˈ p oʊ t ən s / , [ 1 ] US : / ˈ aɪ d ə m -/ ) [ 2 ] is the property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science whereby they can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application.

  6. List of email subject abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Used when sending personal or informational email to a business email address. Immediate response not required. RR, meaning Reply Requested or Reply Required. The recipient is informed that they should reply to this email. RSVP, meaning Reply Requested, please, from the French Répondez s'il vous plaît. The recipient is informed that they ...

  7. Psychopathy - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, some people with Asperger syndrome have shown correlations with the "unemotional" factor and "behavioural dyscontrol" factor of psychopathy, but not the "interpersonal" factor. [225] It has been suggested that psychopathy may be comorbid with several other conditions than these, [220] but limited work on comorbidity has been carried ...

  8. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .

  9. Information - Wikipedia

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    Information security (shortened as InfoSec) is the ongoing process of exercising due diligence to protect information, and information systems, from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, destruction, modification, disruption or distribution, through algorithms and procedures focused on monitoring and detection, as well as incident response and ...