liability

1. in a civil lawsuit, the defendant’s legal responsibility to pay monetary damages for injury or other harm that a court has deemed he or she has caused the plaintiff through, for example, professional malpractice.

2. see multifactorial model.

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Psychology term of the day

January 3rd 2025

noncontingent reinforcement

the process or circumstances in which a stimulus known to be effective as a reinforcer is presented independently of any particular behavior. Because contingencies may arise by accident (see accidental reinforcement), behavior-independent presentation of stimuli cannot guarantee that no contingency exists between a response and the stimuli. See reinforcement.