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Negative Reinforcer

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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

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Classifications

Entity Type

Unknown—authoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
negative reinforcing stimulus
plural
Negative Reinforcers
possessive
Negative Reinforcer's
pluralpossessive
Negative Reinforcers'