- impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again"
- (punished) subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)
- (punishing) arduous: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
- (punishment) the act of punishing
- Punishment is the authoritative imposition of something negative or unpleasant on a person or animal in response to behavior deemed wrong by an individual or group. Inflicted unpleasantness without authority is not punishment, but is characterized as something else. ...
- (Punishment (psychology)) In operant conditioning, punishment is any change in a human or animal's surroundings that occurs after a given behavior or response which reduces the likelihood of that behavior occurring again in the future. ...
- (Punishment (school)) School punishment is a hierarchy of penalties used to punish infractions of rules in a school setting. There are wide variations in practice between schools in different cultures, countries or states, and between different types of school in the same country. ...
- (Punishment (TV series)) Punishment is an Australian television soap opera made by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Ten Network in 1981.
- (The Punishment) "The Punishment" is the second single release from Tarot's fifth studio album For the Glory of Nothing.
- (The Punishment (film)) The Punishment is a 1912 short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet.
- To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action; To cause great harm to. (a punishing blow); To dumb down severely or to the point of uselessness or near-uselessness
- (Punishing) Strong (e.g. Kerry Blue Terrier).
- (Punishment) the attempt to discourage undesirable behaviours through the application of negative consequences, or by withholding a positive consequence, following the undesirable behaviour.
- (Punishment) Decreases behavior. The two types of punishment commonly seen in animal training are positive punishment and negative punishment.
- (Punishment) Presentation of an aversive event or removal of a positive event following a response which decreases the frequency of that response.
- (Punishment) a behavior modification method, is a negative consequence that follows a behavior and that decreases the likelihood that the problem behavior will be repeated. Usually, punishment is used as a last resort to eliminate problem behaviors. ...
- (punishment) in operant conditioning, a process whereby a response is followed by a negative reinforcer, which results in a decrease in the probability of the response.
- (Punishment) 1) The justice that the guilty deal out to those who are caught. 2) A perpetual fine, imposed hourly during the lifetime of a human being for his temerity in living, and continued in Heaven or Hell for his temerity in dying. ...
- (punishment) The process of using a punisher to decrease response rate
- (PUNISHMENT) An ineffective disciplinary reaction to a parrot’s negative behavior. Like young childredn, parrots lack the comprehensive long-term sense of cause and effect required for punishment to successfully change negative behavior to positive behavior. ...
- (PUNISHMENT) A negative sanction imposed on the violator of a system of rules and imposed by an authorized agent of that system of rules. ...
- (PUNISHMENT) varies by type of crime. See Felony, Misdemeanor, and Infraction.
- (Punishment) A behavior change process in which a stimulus during or immediately following a response results in a decrease in the strength of that behavior across subsequent occasions. ...
- (Punishment) A process for weakening behavior that can take one of two forms. First, an aversive or noxious stimulus can be made contingent on the response to be weakened. Second, a positively reinforcing stimulus can be withheld or removed contingent on the response to be weakened. ...
- (Punishment) An act that occurs immediately after an undesirable behaviour it is meant to affect, and causes a decrease in the frequency of that behaviour. ...