reinforcer

Questions about reinforcer

What does reinforcer mean?

reinforcer means "(psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it".

How many syllables are in reinforcer?

reinforcer has 3 syllables and divides as rein-for-cer under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for reinforcer?

Close synonyms include reinforcing stimulus, reinforcement. 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 reinforcer a common word?

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.