What does NR stand for?

Negative Reinforcement

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Science, medicine, engineering, etc.

Other Resources:

<< Previous	Abbreviation Database Surfer		Next >>
Natural Resources Natural Rubber Naturally Radioactive Nauru Nautic Radio (Island of Vis, Croatia) Naval Reactor Naval Reserve Navigational Radar Near (hospitality industry) Negative Rebuttal (debate)		Nekromantix (band) Net Riddle (Central Riddle Network) Network Rail (UK) Network Report Neutral Red (dye) Neutron Radiography New Roads (Louisiana) Newly Reformulated (pharmacology) Next Round Nice Roll

Samples in periodicals archive:

Your dog should not have to live this way so it''s important to keep in mind that positive reinforcement is always more effective than negative reinforcement.

How to Discipline Your Dog Positively, not Negatively

This is accomplished through either positive or negative reinforcement.

Florida Drug Rehab and Addiction Treatment Programs

Most psychologists would agree that the main reason for childhood developmental depression stems from negative reinforcement that they get exposed to when they are children.

How Do You Go About with Effective Childhood Depression Treatment

A short period of negative reinforcement helps parents gain control over the inappropriate behavior so they can implement positive changes over time.

Parenting is crux of the cure in defiant disorder

Now Tilmann Klein and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany have found that people with a particular variant of a gene may have more difficulty than normal learning via negative reinforcement.

Gene variant may influence how people learn from their mistakes

Negative reinforcement like extra charges, regardless of who pays them, justadds to the burden.

Co-operation on water

Two forms of motivation are required to make and sustain a championship teams: positive rewards for the winners, and negative reinforcement for the losers.

Management?s Mixed Messages We?Re High Achievers, but I Love Average ...

Research shows that positive reinforcement (rewarding desired behavior) is much more powerful than negative reinforcement (punishing undesired behavior) in both changing behavior and maintaining it.

Loss control: leadership vs. disasters: plan, recruit, communicate ...