Reinforcement vs. Punishment

Reinforcementnoun

(uncountable) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.

Reinforcementnoun

(countable) A thing that reinforces.

Reinforcementnoun

(in the plural) Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.

Reinforcementnoun

The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.

Reinforcementnoun

See Reënforcement.

Reinforcementnoun

a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission;

Reinforcementnoun

information that makes more forcible or convincing;

Reinforcementnoun

(psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it

Reinforcementnoun

a device designed to provide additional strength;

Reinforcementnoun

an act performed to strengthen approved behavior

Reinforcement

In behavioral psychology, reinforcement is a consequence applied that will strengthen an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent stimulus. This strengthening effect may be measured as a higher frequency of behavior (e.g., pulling a lever more frequently), longer duration (e.g., pulling a lever for longer periods of time), greater magnitude (e.g., pulling a lever with greater force), or shorter latency (e.g., pulling a lever more quickly following the antecedent stimulus).

Punishmentnoun

The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.

Punishmentnoun

A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.

Punishmentnoun

A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution

Punishmentnoun

(figuratively) Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling

Punishmentnoun

The act of punishing.

Punishmentnoun

Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.

Punishmentnoun

A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.

Punishmentnoun

Severe, rough, or disastrous treatment.

Punishmentnoun

the act of punishing

Punishment

Punishment, commonly, is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon a group or individual, meted out by an authority—in contexts ranging from child discipline to criminal law—as a response and deterrent to a particular action or behavior that is deemed undesirable or unacceptable. It is, however, possible to distinguish between various different understandings of what punishment is.The reasoning for punishment may be to condition a child to avoid self-endangerment, to impose social conformity (in particular, in the contexts of compulsory education or military discipline), to defend norms, to protect against future harms (in particular, those from violent crime), and to maintain the law—and respect for rule of law—under which the social group is governed.