"Reinforcers and reinforcement principles of behavior differ from the hypothetical construct of reward . " A reinforcer is anything that follows an action, with the intentions that the action will now occur more frequently.
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In his work, Copernicus " used conventional, hypothetical devices like epicycles . . . as all astronomers had done since antiquity . . . . hypothetical constructs solely designed to'save the phenomena'and aid computation ".
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In a paper published in the " Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences " in 1969, Huebner advanced his theory that oncogenes, then only a hypothetical construct, could cause normal cells to mutate and become cancerous.
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Mair ( 2012 : 49 ) describes this as " reification of a hypothetical construct that never existed in historical reality, but one that once born takes on a life of its own and becomes a cornerstone in studies of the history and thought of Chinese Buddhism ."
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The limbic system is a hypothetical construct of pathways in the forebrain, which contains the hippocampus, amygdala and a few other tiny structures, that supposedly gets all sorts of sensory input from the external world _ sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste _ as well as from the viscera.
