negative punishment

punishment that results because some stimulus or circumstance is removed as a consequence of a response. For example, if a response results in a subtraction of money from an accumulating account, and the response becomes less likely as a result of this experience, then negative punishment has occurred. Compare positive punishment.

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March 12th 2025

drive strength

the intensity of a drive, particularly as quantified in Hull’s mathematico-deductive theory of learning as the number of hours of deprivation of a need.