negative reinforcing stimulus

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

   Synonymsnegative reinforcer

   Broaderreinforcing stimulus

Questions about negative reinforcing stimulus

What does negative reinforcing stimulus mean?

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

What is another word for negative reinforcing stimulus?

Close synonyms include negative reinforcer. 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 reinforcing stimulus a common word?

negative reinforcing stimulus 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.