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vicarious punishments

vicarious punishments is the plural of vicarious punishment.

Meaning of vicarious punishment

Noun

vicarious punishment (countable and uncountable, plural vicarious punishments)

  1. A type of social learning in which a person is dissuaded from committing a certain act, as a result of seeing others punished for the same action.

Questions about vicarious punishments

What is vicarious punishments the plural of?
Vicarious punishments is the plural of vicarious punishment.

Words near vicarious punishments in the dictionary

  1. vicarious embarrassments
  2. vicarious learning
  3. vicarious learnings
  4. vicarious liability
  5. vicarious punishment
  6. vicarious punishments
  7. vicarious reinforcement
  8. vicarious reinforcements
  9. vicariously
  10. vicariousness
  11. vicariousnesses

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