Example sentences for: reinforcement

How can you use “reinforcement” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Genetic analysis is also allowing a new understanding of the mechanisms by which reinforcement might be taking place in specific cases.

  • This leads to the novel conclusion that reinforcement is not just increasing the strength of an already existing mechanism of species discrimination, but is occurring through the development of a new discrimination system.

  • Situations where reinforcement fails to occur likewise teach a lesson, elucidating possible mechanisms of extinction when secondary contact occurs between species.

  • Reinforcement occasionally leaves a signature, called reproductive character displacement, in which mating characteristics have diverged between populations in areas of sympatry but not areas of allopatry (Figure 2) (the relationship between reinforcement and reproductive character displacement, and controversy over the definition of the latter, is reviewed in Howard 1993).

  • females, due to reinforcement in sympatry.


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