positive reinforcing stimulus

Questions about positive reinforcing stimulus

What is another word for positive reinforcing stimulus?

It depends which positive reinforcing stimulus you mean. In the sense “a reinforcing stimulus that serves to increase the likelihood of the response that produces it”, the synonyms are positive reinforcer. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of positive reinforcing stimulus?

WordNet records no antonym for positive reinforcing stimulus. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for positive reinforcing stimulus come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of positive reinforcing stimulus

• Full entry for positive reinforcing stimulusAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for positive reinforcing stimulusWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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