{"id":8797,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/positive_reinforcement\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:37","slug":"positive_reinforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/positive_reinforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive reinforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In operant conditioning, a reward that reliably follows a behavior and increases the likelihood that the behaviour will be produced again. &nbsp;Four types of positive reinforcers are typically considered, but which are not necessarily mutually exclusive: natural reinforcers (occurring directly as a consequence of a particular behavior), tangible reinforcers (offering rewards such a money that are desirable), token reinforcers (tokens awarded for the performance of certain behaviors), and social reinforcers (expressions of approval for a particular behavior).<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"learning\">Learning<\/a>, Operant (or instrumental) conditioning<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In operant conditioning, a reward that reliably follows a behavior and increases the likelihood that the behaviour will be produced again. &nbsp;Four types of positive reinforcers are typically considered, but which are not necessarily mutually exclusive: natural reinforcers (occurring directly as a consequence of a particular behavior), tangible reinforcers (offering rewards such a money that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/positive_reinforcement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Positive reinforcement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}