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The 20 pages that link to Reinforcement, each with the reason it gives.

• BehaviorismBroader topic: Reinforcement is the key consequence in Skinner’s account of operant learning.

• SocializationRelated: Approval and penalties help sustain or discourage socially learned conduct.

• Operant conditioningBroader topic: It strengthens behavior by making a response more likely to recur.

• MotivationRelated: Rewards and other reinforcing consequences can strengthen goal-directed actions.

• Social learning theoryNarrower topic: The theory incorporates reinforcement while extending beyond learning from direct consequences alone.

• Negative reinforcementNarrower topic: Negative reinforcement belongs to this broader class because the behavior becomes more likely.

• B. F. SkinnerRelated: Skinner distinguished reinforcement by its effect on behavior, not by its intention.

• Observational learningRelated: Reinforcement can shape a model’s behavior and influence an observer indirectly.

• Edward ThorndikeRelated: Thorndike’s law of effect anticipated later theories centered on consequences strengthening behavior.

• Positive reinforcementNarrower topic: Positive reinforcement is one form of reinforcement, distinguished by adding a consequence.

• Health behaviorRelated: Immediate rewards can maintain behaviors even when their health consequences are harmful.

• Learning theoryRelated: It is the central consequence-based mechanism in operant accounts.

• PunishmentCompared with: Its effect on behavior is the opposite of punishment, regardless of how pleasant it seems.

• ConditioningBroader topic: It strengthens behaviors in operant learning.

• TranslocationBroader topic: It aims to strengthen a population that persists but is small or declining.

• Clark L. HullRelated: Hull linked reinforcement to need reduction, making it a condition for habit formation.

• George C. HomansRelated: Homans used reinforcement to explain why rewarded social actions are repeated.

• Human behaviorRelated: Consequences can strengthen actions and make them recur.

• KleptomaniaRelated: Relief or gratification after stealing may help sustain the behavior.

• Neal E. MillerRelated: Reinforcement was central to his claim that internal responses could be shaped by consequences.