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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.