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Psychological reinforcement

Known as: Reinforcement (Psychology), Reinforcements, Reinforcement 
The strengthening of a conditioned response.
National Institutes of Health

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Behavior TherapyMotivationSocial Learning

Broader (3)

Conditioning (Psychology)Operant ConditioningResponse to stimulus physiology

Narrower (4)

Helplessness, LearnedNegative ReinforcementPositive ReinforcementRewards

Papers overview

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2003
2003
Is There Any Reason To Withhold Blockers from High-risk Patients with Coronary Artery Disease during Surgery ?
A FEW years ago, a critical care fellow embarrassed me by defending his less than stellar documentation of a patient’s physical… 
2002
2002
Intentional fixation of behavioural learning, or how R-O learning blocks S-R learning
Four experiments deal with the acquisition of knowledge for the control of voluntary behaviour. Subjects had to accomplish a… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
A Tutorial on Reinforcement Learning Techniques
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is learning through direct experimentation. It does not assume the existence of a teacher that… 
1984
1984
Some effective therapeutic factors in group cognitive-behavioral therapy with problem drinkers.
The mechanisms of cognitive-behavioral treatment with 18 problem drinkers (14 men) during 12 2-hr sessions with two therapists… 
1977
1977
Effects of sports fitness camp experience on locus of control orientation in children, ages 6 to 14.
Abstract The purpose of this study was to determine if children, ages 6 to 14, would experience greater internal locus of control… 
1976
1976
Verbal versus tangible reward for children who stutter.
The results of several previous attempts to modify the speech of stuttering children suggest that tangible (as opposed to verbal… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Hypoglycemic conditioned reflex in rats: preliminary study of its mechanism.
It was found that a nervous mechanism is involved in eliciting a hypoglycemic response in rats. A conditioned reflex was… 
Review
1972
Review
1972
The effect of vicarious reinforcement on imitation: a review of the literature.
1962
1962
Conditioned diminution of the unconditioned response as a function of the number of reinforcements.
1956
1956
The effects of number of reinforcements on the strength of a generalized instrumental response.
The importance of the principle of stimulus generalization in behavior theory, and especially in stimulus-response theories of… 
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