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

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

Positive Feedback Control: Occurs when information produced by the feedback increases and accelerates the response.

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.

Reinforcement: The practice of providing positive feedback to an individual or groups of individuals after completion of a particular project or achievement of a particular goal.

Rreinforcement: The strengthening of a response by reward or avoidance of punishment. This process is central in operant conditioning.