Definitions for rewarding
rɪˈwɔr dɪŋre·ward·ing

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1. rewardingadjective

   providing personal satisfaction

   "a rewarding career as a paramedic"

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1. rewardingadjective

   Giving reward or satisfaction.

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1. rewarding

   The reward system (the mesocorticolimbic circuit) is a group of neural structures responsible for incentive salience (i.e., "wanting"; desire or craving for a reward and motivation), associative learning (primarily positive reinforcement and classical conditioning), and positively-valenced emotions, particularly ones involving pleasure as a core component (e.g., joy, euphoria and ecstasy). Reward is the attractive and motivational property of a stimulus that induces appetitive behavior, also known as approach behavior, and consummatory behavior. A rewarding stimulus has been described as "any stimulus, object, event, activity, or situation that has the potential to make us approach and consume it is by definition a reward". In operant conditioning, rewarding stimuli function as positive reinforcers; however, the converse statement also holds true: positive reinforcers are rewarding. The reward system motivates animals to approach stimuli or engage in behaviour that increases fitness (sex, energy-dense foods, etc.). Survival for most animal species depends upon maximizing contact with beneficial stimuli and minimizing contact with harmful stimuli. Reward cognition serves to increase the likelihood of survival and reproduction by causing associative learning, eliciting approach and consummatory behavior, and triggering positively-valenced emotions. Thus, reward is a mechanism that evolved to help increase the adaptive fitness of animals. In drug addiction, certain substances over-activate the reward circuit, leading to compulsive substance-seeking behavior resulting from synaptic plasticity in the circuit.Primary rewards are a class of rewarding stimuli which facilitate the survival of one's self and offspring, and they include homeostatic (e.g., palatable food) and reproductive (e.g., sexual contact and parental investment) rewards. Intrinsic rewards are unconditioned rewards that are attractive and motivate behavior because they are inherently pleasurable. Extrinsic rewards (e.g., money or seeing one's favorite sports team winning a game) are conditioned rewards that are attractive and motivate behavior but are not inherently pleasurable. Extrinsic rewards derive their motivational value as a result of a learned association (i.e., conditioning) with intrinsic rewards. Extrinsic rewards may also elicit pleasure (e.g., euphoria from winning a lot of money in a lottery) after being classically conditioned with intrinsic rewards.

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1. Rewarding

   of Reward

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1. Rewarding

   Reward vs. Rewarding -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Reward and Rewarding.

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1. redrawing

How to pronounce rewarding?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rewarding in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rewarding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of rewarding in a Sentence

1. Jeff Tucker:

   If you have the patience and flexibility, shopping in September can be really rewarding.

2. Lauren Puryear:

   Just knowing that we’re making a difference in someone’s life, that’s the most rewarding thing and what keeps me going.

3. John Kenneth Galbraith:

   Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.

4. Natalie Khawam:

   Instead of rewarding a caring doctor, the Marion VA tried to silence him by terminating him, the nation’s veterans have lost a great and caring doctor.

5. Lauren Puryear:

   I was able to get them for four cents a can at Dollar General so I bought 420 cans and I added chicken and rice to that meal. just knowing that we’re making a difference in someone’s life, that’s the most rewarding thing and what keeps me going.

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