NEGATIVE REINFORCER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does negative reinforcer mean? 

• NEGATIVE REINFORCER (noun)
  The noun NEGATIVE REINFORCER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: NEGATIVE REINFORCER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEGATIVE REINFORCER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

negative reinforcer; negative reinforcing stimulus

Hypernyms ("negative reinforcer" is a kind of...):

reinforcement; reinforcer; reinforcing stimulus ((psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it)

 Context examples 

Noxious stimuli, such as shock in laboratory animal experiments, are considered to be negative reinforcers.

(Negative Reinforcer, NCI Thesaurus)