Negative Reinforcement

Definition

Negative reinforcement involves removing an aversive stimulus to increase the likelihood that a desired behavior will be repeated.

Related terms

Escape Learning: A form of learning where an organism learns to perform a behavior to escape from an aversive stimulus. This is a type of negative reinforcement.

Avoidance Learning: A type of learning where an organism acquires responses that avoid an aversive stimulus before it starts.

Conditioned Response:

The learned response to a previously neutral stimulus, which can be involved in both positive and negative reinforcement scenarios.