response-contingent
Psychology
adjective
Designating events experienced by a person or animal which are made rewarding or unpleasant according to the nature of the response to a stimulus, typically as reinforcement or discouragement; relating to or experiencing such events.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Journal Abnormal & Social Psychology.
- informable
- informal
- informalise
- informality
- informalize
- informally
- informal settlement
- informal vote
- informance
- informant
- informatic
- informatical
- informatician
- informatics
- information
- information age
- informational
- informationally
- information architect
- information architecture
- information booth
- information bureau
- information content
- information desk
- information economy