Reinforcement Quotes

The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.

The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind.

With constant repetition and reinforcement, new habits are easily formed.

Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment than enchantment.

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.

I think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings.

We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.