At 2:11 PM -0500 11/3/03, Mark A. Casteel wrote:
For what it's worth from a source that has been around for a long
time (and one from which I taught when I was in grad school)
Baldwin & Baldwin, "Behavior Principles in Everyday Life": "To
reinforce mean to strengthen, and both positive and negative
reinforcement strengthen behavior. They both increase the likelihood
that people will repeat a behavior in the future." . . . Postive
reinforcement occurs with teh onset of a reinforcing stimulus, and
negative reinforcement occurs with the termination fo an aversive
stimulus."
This is still the accepted definition.
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