positive reinforcing stimulus

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

   Synonymspositive reinforcer

   Broaderreinforcing stimulus

Questions about positive reinforcing stimulus

What does positive reinforcing stimulus mean?

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

What is another word for positive reinforcing stimulus?

Close synonyms include positive 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 positive reinforcing stimulus a common word?

positive 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.