Behavior analysis is an approach to psychology that concerns itself primarily with observing, analysing and attempting to understand and predict the way humans behave and interact.
1) Uninterrupted activity on a task (as in cramming for an exam). In most tasks, massed practice is less effective than distributed practice.
2) Spacing periods of activity on a task.
1) A stimulus in the presence of which a particular response will be reinforced or punished.
"2) In operant discrimination. a stimulus in the presence of which a response is reinforced and in the ...
Stimuli that have acquired the function of setting the occasion for a behavior to occur. A behavior is more likely to occur in the presence of a discriminative stimulus than in its absence.