All glossaries
Rewards, Incentives & Punishment
This page covers how rewards, promised incentives, and unpleasant consequences are used to encourage or discourage behavior. A reward can be money, praise, access to something enjoyable, or something a person arranges for themselves. The definitions explain how these arrangements are set up, including material incentives, social rewards, and rewards for a replacement behavior. They also cover withholding or removing rewards and several forms of punishment.
Definitions
- Behavior cost
- Future punishment
- Imaginary punishment
- Imaginary reward
- Incentive (outcome)
- Material incentive (behavior)
- Material reward (behavior)
- Micro-incentive
- Non-specific incentive
- Non-specific reward
- Perverse Incentives
- Punishment
- Reduce reward frequency
- Remove access to the reward
- Remove aversive stimulus
- Remove punishment
- Remove reward
- Reward alternative behavior
- Reward approximation
- Reward incompatible behavior
- Reward (outcome)
- Rewarding completion
- Self-incentive
- Self-reward
- Situation-specific reward
- Social incentive
- Social Reward