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Psychological distance to reward: equating the number of stimulus and response segments

Behavioural Processes, 2004
Psychological distance to reward, or the segmentation effect, refers to the preference for a terminal link of a concurrent-chains schedule consisting of a simple reinforcement schedule (e.g. fixed interval [FI] 30s) relative to its chained-schedule counterpart (e.g. chained FI 15s FI 15s).
Megan E. Meginley, Kennon A. Lattal, Adam H. Doughty, Shannon S. Doughty   +3 more
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The cultivation of joy: practices from the Buddhist tradition, positive psychology, and yogic philosophy

Journal of Positive Psychology, 2020
The emotion of joy is often thought of as the result of an external stimulus. Few traditions explicitly instruct on how to cultivate joy from within. There are a few exceptions to this.
D. Casioppo
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From A Physical Color Stimulus To A Psychological Color Percept

SPIE Proceedings, 1989
The paper discusses the complexity of color vision in humans, considering the main aspects involved: the physical aspect, the psychophysical aspect, the physiological aspect and the psychological aspect. The meanings of the term color associated to each such aspect (asfor example, color stimulus, color valence, neural color signal and color percept ...
Dan G. Sporea, Gunnar Tonnquist
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Processes in Perception: Psychological Transformations of Highly Structured Stimulus Material

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1996
To investigate psychological determinants of the fact that perception is often nonveridical, stimulus items (mostly groups of letters) were presented tachistoscopically to 100 subjects. A 50-msec. exposure maximized opportunity for misperception. A substantial proportion of subjects misperceived, and as many as 88% reported identical misperceptions of
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Psychological distance to reward: The aversiveness of the first component stimulus in a chain

Behavioural Processes, 1994
Pigeons served in two experiments examining the aversiveness of the first-component stimulus (S1) in a fixed-time (FT) chained schedule using a two-key escape procedure. Responding on a chain key was reinforced by a chained schedule while pecking a switch key produced brief blackouts on the chain key.
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Psychological and Neurophysiological Factors in Stimulus-Response Compatibility

1990
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the psychological and neurophysiological factors in stimulus-response (S-R) compatibility. The term S-R compatibility is potentially applicable to a very wide range of situations in which responses have to be made to stimuli.
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Social learning theory and developmental psychology: The legacies of Robert Sears and Albert Bandura.

, 2020
J. Grusec
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Visual search and stimulus similarity.

Psychology Review, 1989
J. Duncan, G. Humphreys
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A STIMULUS-EXPECTANCY NEED-CATHEXIS PSYCHOLOGY

, 2023

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Stimulus reduction as a technique in health psychology.

Health Psychology, 1982
Peter Suedfeld, Jean L. Kristeller
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