Positive Discipline: A disciplinary strategy geared toward reducing and improving an individual’s unfavorable behavior or conduct by rewarding positive behavior rather than focusing on and punishing negative behavior.

 

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Positive Discipline: A disciplinary strategy geared toward reducing and improving an individual’s unfavorable behavior or conduct by rewarding positive behavior rather than focusing on and punishing negative behavior.

Positive Signs: All air and fire signs; used to describe the outgoing, dynamic qualities characteristic of these signs. Also called masculine signs. See also Masculine signs.

Positive Space: Space aboard a ship or aircraft that can be confirmed ahead of time.

Positive Reinforcement: The process of acknowledging specific behaviors with positive feedback, such as a smile, praise or reward.

Positive Organ: Small single-manual organ, popular in the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

Positive Lens: Simple lens that causes light rays from a subject to converge to a point.

Positive Symptoms: Reflect an excess or distortion of normal functions. Includes delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior.

Positive Vorticity Advection: The advection of higher values of vorticity into an area. It is also known as cyclonic vorticity.

Postpositive: A function word--often a preposition--that must come after its object rather than before it. By definition, a postpositive word or phrase cannot begin a sentence. Several words in Latin and . . . View Full Definition

Progressive Discipline: A form of discipline whereby increasingly harsher penalties are awarded each time an employee is disciplined for the same or a different performance infraction or policy or work-rule violati . . . View Full Definition