"To reinforce the habit" means to strengthen or support a behavior or routine that someone has developed.
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Teach them it's no longer okay to do, and make sure you are not intentionally or unintentionally
reinforcing the habit of jumping.
Place litter boxes and papers in any free - roam areas of your home to
reinforce the habit when your ferret is out of the cage.
Also, on days when your child does not have any assigned homework, this shared reading time will
reinforce the habit of a work time each evening.
When you feed your baby at this middle - of - the - night waking,
it reinforces the habit.
Activities that make you feel anxious, stressed, and not good enough also lead to
reinforcing habits.
B.J. Fogg also emphasizes that it is emotions that create and
reinforce habits.
Instead of being a preemptive trader you are
reinforcing habits that make you an emotionally reactive trader; essentially when you trade with negative trading habits you allow your emotion to direct your trading instead of your logic and objectivity.
Training adult dogs may take longer than puppies because they already have
some reinforced habits.
If he does sing, even just a little, give him some fruit to mark the behavior and
reinforce the habit.
Since coprophagia is a self -
reinforcing habit, it can be a truly tough one to break.
Since giving kittens any attention may tend to
reinforce this habit, pay them no attention.
The result is to prolong and
reinforce the habits of thinking like a student rather than an apprentice practitioner,» the report said.