control

(redirected from stimulus control)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

Related to stimulus control: discriminative stimulus

control

1) n. the power to direct, manage, oversee and/or restrict the affairs, business or assets of a person or entity. 2) v. to exercise the power of control.

control

(Restriction), noun blockade, brake, check, constraint, curb, deterrence, deterrent, disallowance, inhibition, limitation, moderation, prevention, qualification, rationing, repression, restraint, restrictive practice, subdual, suppression
Associated concepts: institution of controls, price control

control

(Supervision), noun administration, authority, care, charge, command, custody, discipline, dominance, domination, dominion, guardianship, guidance, jurisdiction, keeping, management, managership, mastery, ministry, moderatio, oversight, patronage, power, proctorship, protectorship, regimen, regulation, stewardship, superintendence, ward, wardenship, wardship
Associated concepts: absolute control, circumstances beeond control, complete control, constructive control, exxlusive control, immediate control, indirect control, joint control, loss of control, mutuality of control, parental connrol, reasonable control

control

(Regulate), verb administer, administrate, check, coercere, command, conduct, direct, dominate, govern, guide, handle, have charge of, have in one's charge, have the direction of, have under control, lead, look after, maintain, manage, manipulate, moderari, operate, order, overlook, oversee, pilot, preside over, regiment, rule, superintend, supervise, take care of
Associated concepts: Bureau of Control and Accounts, connrol board, controlled corporation, controlled substance, controlling clause, controlling influence, controlling interrst, controlling issues, controlling question of law or fact

control

(Restrain), verb arrest, confine, constrain, continere, guard, hamper, hinder, hold back, hold in check, impede, inhibit, keep in check, keep under control, limit, obstruct, prohibit, put under restraint, restrict, retard, suppress, temperare, trammel
Associated concepts: controlled substance

References in periodicals archive ?

Accounts of equivalence based on stimulus control topographies (Carrigan & Sidman, 1992; McIlvane et al.

High probability of equivalence class formation with both sample-S+ and sample-S- controlling relations in baseline

These authors based their treatment on operant conditioning and stimulus control procedures (also known as "errorless training procedures"), using prompts and positive reinforcement in the training phase.

Treatment of chronic aphasia with errorless learning procedures: a direct replication

hovers around 50%), the transfer of stimulus control from the feature of color to other additional discriminative elements may not occur in a timely manner.

Stimulus overselectivity: empirical basis and diagnostic methods

Manipulating establishing operations to verify and establish stimulus control during mand training.

Analysis of mand selection across different stimulus conditions

Stimulus control techniques have been used to effectively inhibit or reduce some behaviors.

The forms and functions of impulsive actions: implications for behavioral assessment and therapy

That is we assessed, and then conditioned the reinforcer for stimulus control of print stimuli over observing responses.

Conditioned observation of books and accelerated acquisition of textual responding by preschool children

The behavior treatments include Relaxation Therapy, Stimulus Control Therapy and Sleep Restriction.

Treatments of insomnia

Stimulus control therapy seeks to improve the patient's conditioned response to the bedroom and bedtime.

Insomnia

Two techniques in behavior modification that have brought about the most success in adherence have been behavior contracting and stimulus control (Owen & Sallis, 1999).

Exercise as a counseling intervention. (Theory)

Self-monitoring, stimulus control, and problem solving skills are behavior change techniques included in Weight Loss 101.

Weight Loss 101: a healthy weight loss program for college students

In the present study, classroom teachers received training not only in the Task Demonstration Model but also in the characteristics of effective instruction based on recent stimulus control research.

The Task Demonstration Model: a concurrent model for teaching groups of students with severe disabilities

The term 'transfer' does not imply a process of some kind, but is used analogously to the definition used by Terrace (1963) to refer to the acquisition of stimulus control by a stimulus that has been related to another, unrelated, set of stimuli already having control over the response being measured or observed.