Reinforcer
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motivation, operant conditioning
Scope Note
rewarding stimulus which is presented or naturally experienced by the subject after performing the appropriate response.
Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- A conditioned reinforcer is anything that wouldn't ordinarily be something the animal would work to get.
- In such cases, the receipt of the reinforcer is too delayed from the behavior to have actually reinforced that behavior (e.
- Used in the training context, a reinforcer is anything that increases the behavior it immediately follows.
- According to Small, a primary reinforcer is a stimulus that an individual doesnt have to learn to like but, rather, is enjoyed from birth.
- The "classic" schedule, where one reinforcer is delivered for each response, is called a continuous reinforcement schedule - it has a ratio of 1.
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