A technique of behavior modification through positive and negative reinforcement and positive and negative punishment
Operant conditioning follows the US psychologist Edward Thorndike's (1874-1949) law of effect' (1911): that responses become more frequent if followed by satisfying consequences but less frequent if followed by aversive consequences Skinner showed that a rat which is rewarded when it operates on' its environment by pressing a lever will increase its number of lever-presses It is therefore associating the stimulus (reinforcement) with its own behavior (response) This is referred to as S-R conditioning (see also, Classical Conditioning, Conditioning) (Ref 3)
(instrumental conditioning) A process by which the results of the person's behavior determine whether the behavior is more or less likely to occur in the future orientation State of awareness of oneself and one's surroundings in terms of time, place, and person overlearning practice that is continued beyond the point of mere mastery of memorized material or of a skill
A process in which the frequency of occurrence of a behavior is modified by the consequences of the behavior
(op´e-rant): Learning in which the consequences of behavior lead to changes in the probability of its occurrence (p 204)
Learning that changes the frequency of a response type in the environment (Anderson)
A process of behavior modification in which the likelihood of a specific behavior is increased or decreased through positive or negative reinforcement each time the behavior is exhibited, so that the subject comes to associate the pleasure or displeasure of the reinforcement with the behavior
the process of increasing or decreasing the likelihood that an individual will produce an active behavior (an operant) as a result of interacting with the environment
When a specific response produces reinforcement, and the frequency of the response determines the amount of reinforcement obtained
method of conditioning based on systematic association between a behavior and reinforcement or punishment
Behavior conditioned by the response of skeletal muscle response after the presentation of a discriminative cue
conditioning in which an operant response is brought under stimulus control by virtue of presenting reinforcement contingent upon the occurrence of the operant response