NEGATIVE REINFORCER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reinforcing stimulus whose removal serves to decrease the likelihood of the response that produced it

Synonyms:

negative reinforcer; negative reinforcing stimulus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("negative reinforcer" is a kind of...):

reinforcement; reinforcer; reinforcing stimulus ((psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it)

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