Negative Reinforcer

A stimulus that increases the frequency of a behavior that prevents or terminates its presentation. Noxious stimuli, such as shock in laboratory animal experiments, are considered to be negative reinforcers. (NCI Thesaurus)

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Negative Regulation of Receptor Activation

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Negative Regulation of Nitric Oxide Release

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