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noun - a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
noun - information that makes more forcible or convincing
noun - (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it
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| Psychology The occurrence or experimental introduction of an unconditioned stimulus along with a conditioned stimulus. |
| Additional personnel or equipment sent to support a military action. Often used in the plural. |
| the act of making something stronger: |
| soldiers sent to join an army to make it stronger |
| something added to provide more strength or support: |
| Reinforcements are soldiers sent to join an army to make it stronger: |
| Reinforcement is also a way of influencing behavior through rewards and punishments: |
| the act of making an idea or belief stronger: |
| extra people to help with work: |
| the act of making a material or structure stronger, or the thing that is added to a structure to make it stronger: |
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In behavioral psychology, reinforcement is a consequence applied that will strengthen an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent stimulus. This strengthening effect may be measured as a higher frequency of behavior (e.g., pulling a lever more frequently), longer duration (e.g., pulling a lever for longer periods of time), greater magnitude (e.g., pulling a lever with greater force), or shorter latency (e.g., pulling a lever more quickly following the antecedent stimulus). * Rewarding stimuli, which are associated with "wanting" and "liking" (desire and pleasure, respectively) and appetitive behavior, function as positive reinforcers; the converse statement is also true: positive reinforcers provide a desirable stimulus. Reinforcement does not require an individual to consciously perceive an effect elicited by the stimulus. Thus, reinforcement occurs only if there is an observable strengthening in behavior. However, there is also negative r |
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