non-reinforcement

noun

1. the act of reinforcing.
2. the state of being reinforced.
3. something that reinforces or strengthens.
4. Often reinforcements. an additional supply of personnel, ships, aircraft, etc., for a military force.
5. a system of steel bars, strands, wires, or mesh for absorbing the tensile and shearing stresses in concrete work.
6. Psychology.
   1. a procedure, as a reward or punishment, that alters a response to a stimulus.
   2. the act of reinforcing a response.

n.c.1600, “act of reinforcing,” from reinforce + -ment. Meaning “an augmentation, that which reinforces” is from 1650s. Related: Reinforcements. n.

1. The act or process of reinforcing.
2. Something that reinforces.
3. The occurrence or experimental introduction of an unconditioned stimulus along with a conditioned stimulus.
4. The strengthening of a conditioned response by such means.
5. An event, a circumstance, or a condition that increases the likelihood that a given response will recur in a situation like that in which the reinforcing condition originally occurred.