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Punishment designed to reduce the frequency of negative behavior.  

The dynamics and standards of a group that limit or inhibit productivity.  

The process of adopting forms of behavior opposite to those that are regarded as desirable by parents, most adults, and society in general.  

An action that produces a consequence that stops or reverses the action, feedback system, positive feedback. A situation in which the result of a process represses the process which caused it.  

Actions that create psychological dependence and harm structures and functions of the body.  

A relationship between two measures of behavior in which high values of one are associated with values of the other positive correlation. Variables have an inverse relationship such that a large value of x is associated with a small value of y and a small value of x is associated with a large value of…

Events and situations that follow a behavior and are unpleasant, e.g., punishments.  

In epidemiology, as the amount of the characteristics increases, the rate of the health state decreases, negative acceleration, positive association.  

A visual experience that follows stimulation takes the form of an image that is complementary in color to the original stimulus. Afterimage in which the colors and light intensity are reversed.