positive reinforcer

1. 1.

   a reinforcing stimulus that serves to increase the likelihood of the response that produces it

   Synonymspositive reinforcing stimulus

   Broaderreinforcing stimulus

Questions about positive reinforcer

What does positive reinforcer mean?

positive reinforcer means "a reinforcing stimulus that serves to increase the likelihood of the response that produces it".

What is another word for positive reinforcer?

Close synonyms include positive 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 positive reinforcer a common word?

positive 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.