operant conditioning
Sign in to saveAlso known as GO:0035106, instrumental conditioning, Reinforcement learning
learning to anticipate future events on the basis of past experience with the consequences of one's own behavior
Research
45,556 papers- Operant conditioning.Annual review of psychology · 2003
- Operant conditioning as a new mechanism of placebo effects.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2020
- Operant conditioning in invertebrates.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2003
- Operant conditioning.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 1971
- Attention span: an operant conditioning analysis.Exceptional children · 1967
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Encyclopedic overview
Operant conditioning, also called instrumental conditioning, is a learning process in which voluntary behaviors are modified by association with the addition (or removal) of reward or aversive stimuli. The frequency or duration of the behavior may increase through reinforcement or decrease through punishment or extinction.
Origins
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