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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…

Pain with a definite physical cause, operant pain.  

In law, the person against whom legal action is brought, e.g., the noncustodial parent in a child support case.  

To breathe in and out. To breathe and to consume oxygen and release carbon dioxide.