negative reinforcer

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

   Synonymsnegative reinforcing stimulus

   Broaderreinforcing stimulus

Questions about negative reinforcer

What does negative reinforcer mean?

negative reinforcer means "a reinforcing stimulus whose removal serves to decrease the likelihood of the response that produced it".

What is another word for negative reinforcer?

Close synonyms include negative reinforcing stimulus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is negative reinforcer a common word?

negative reinforcer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.