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may be confusing, like when an incentive (reward) is used to boost poor performance (narrow a gap). Referring to definition 1, some authors use alternative terms, replacing positive and negative with self-reinforcing and self-correcting, reinforcing and balancing, discrepancy-enhancing and discrepancy-reducing or regenerative and degenerative respectively. And for definition 2, some authors promote describing the action or effect as positive and negative reinforcement or punishment

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