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  2. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    In other words, a person is more likely to believe a familiar statement than an unfamiliar one. See also under {{Section link}}: required section parameter(s) missing: Lag effect The phenomenon whereby learning is greater when studying is spread out over time, as opposed to studying the same amount of time in a single session. See also spacing ...

  3. Errorless learning - Wikipedia

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    The errorless learning procedure is highly effective in reducing the number of responses to the S− during training. In Terrace's (1963) experiment, subjects trained with the conventional discrimination procedure averaged over 3000 S− (errors) responses during 28 sessions of training; whereas subjects trained with the errorless procedure averaged only 25 S− (errors) responses in the same ...

  4. Antecedent (behavioral psychology) - Wikipedia

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    One intervention [15] talked about preventing bad behavior in classrooms as a positive alternative to punishment. [15] This goes against reinforcement theory, [8] which states that the consequence of the behavior drives the behavior. When it comes to behaviors in schools, the antecedent here (without intervention) could be a number of things: [15]

  5. Psychology of learning - Wikipedia

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    In America, there was a strong emphasis on behaviorism, which focused on exploring observable behavior. Learning mechanisms were often tested on animals. [1] [3] Russia, or the Soviet Union at the time, provided a cultural-historical approach towards psychology that described learning in the context of one's environment. [3]

  6. Splitting (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Splitting can also result in dispositional and situational attributes of others' actions. This means that both a liked person's good behavior and an unliked person's bad behavior are both dispositional attributes; however, a good person's bad behavior would be situational and attributed to symptoms like stress or intoxication. [11]

  7. Demerit (school discipline) - Wikipedia

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    A demerit is a point given to a student as a penalty for bad behavior. [1] Under this once common practice, a student is given a number of merits during the beginning of the school term and a certain number of merits are deducted for every infraction committed. [2] Schools use the demerit record within a point-based system to punish misbehavior.

  8. Time-out (parenting) - Wikipedia

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    Time-out is one behavior control method based on removing positive reinforcement for a brief time. [12] Less elaborate methods from the same class like tactical ignoring , or planned ignoring, also can be effective in cases where parental/caregiver attention is the positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

  9. Learning - Wikipedia

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    Formal learning is a deliberate way attaining of knowledge, which takes place within a teacher-student environment, such as in a school system or work environment. [51] [52] The term formal learning has nothing to do with the formality of the learning, but rather the way it is directed and organized. In formal learning, the learning or training ...