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reinforcer

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(psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it

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That is, a discriminative stimulus is also a "conditioned reinforcer." Source: Internet

They are strengthened through operant conditioning, sometimes called "instrumental conditioning", in which the occurrence of a response yields a reinforcer. Source: Internet

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