Actions that affect behavior through intimidation, fear or avoidance are called negative reinforcers.
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An ibuprofen is a negative reinforcer because it takes away pain.
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There are multiple components of operant conditioning; these include reinforcement such as positive reinforcers and negative reinforcers.
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As a rule it is easiest to identify a positive punisher and negative reinforcer by the response given by the subject.
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Negative reinforcers are a stimulus whose removal immediately after a response cause the response to be strengthened or to increase in frequency.
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A wealth tax serves as a negative reinforcer ( " use it or lose it " ), which coerces the productive use of assets.
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If you sit on a thumb tack, the pain associated with the tack is a negative reinforcer, which causes a certain behavior _ jumping upward.
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Noxious stimuli, for example electric shocks, have been used as " negative reinforcers " for training octpuses, squid and cuttlefish in discrimination studies and other learning paradigms.
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As in the example with the rat, the shock acts as a positive punisher while the removal of the shock acts as a negative reinforcer which is why the two contingencies are inherently linked.
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Simply put, reinforcers serve to increase behaviors whereas punishers serve to decrease behaviors; thus, positive reinforcers are stimuli that the subject will work to attain, and negative reinforcers are stimuli that the subject will work to be rid of or to end.
परिभाषा
a reinforcing stimulus whose removal serves to decrease the likelihood of the response that produced it पर्याय: negative reinforcing stimulus,