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reinforcer

n. Something that reinforces; something that strengthens a behavior.

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reinforcer

n. (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it [syn: reinforcing stimulus, reinforcement]

Usage examples of "reinforcer".

At that time, of course, the Reinforcer, if still in this temporal matrix, will revert to its constituent parts.

If he did manage to work up a memory reinforcer, it would flush the system all at once, perhaps, and no one could predict what that would feel like subjectively.

Sax preferred memory reinforcer, although he also liked anamnesis, which seemed the most accurate term for what they were trying to do.

For some reason—probably having to do with a temporal precession effect induced by the reduplication of the Reinforcer circuitry—you seem to have taken over control of our joint conceptualizing capacities.

If I'd only sided with R'heet and gone ahead and dug the Reinforcer out of your skull by force, instead of going all mushy inside and voting to keep you alive.

The organism is figuring out what is going on--what causes what or what leads to what (called cognitive maps)--and then acts to get the reinforcer (reward).

Variations: an actual behavior followed by an imagined reward or an imagined behavior followed by an actual reinforcer (an M & M).

It is important to keep in mind the universe surrounding you, namely, hordes of swirling habits accumulated over a lifetime and a myriad of reinforcers ready to be attached to many behaviors.

It is important that you realize the wide variety of reinforcers there are in the world (that realization alone may increase your intrinsic satisfaction with life).

The incubators in the Da Vinci labs had long since cooked up a full set of corrected Ann-specific DNA strands, and antisense reinforcers, and glue-ons—the whole gerontological package, in its latest configuration.

Hooded reinforcers converging on them in hovercraft with clubs and stunguns, hauling them away.