Operant conditioning
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Operant conditioning is a form of psychological learning where an individual modifies the occurrence and form of its own behavior due to the association of the behavior with a stimulus. Operant conditioning is distinguished from classical conditioning (also called respondent conditioning) in that operant conditioning deals with the modification of "voluntary behavior" or operant behavior. Operant behavior "operates" on the environment and is maintained by its consequences, while classical conditioning deals with the conditioning of reflexive (reflex) behaviors which are elicited by antecedent conditions. Behaviors conditioned via a classical conditioning procedure are not maintained by consequences.
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See also
- Animal testing
- Applied behavior analysis, the application of operant behaviorism
- Behaviorism, the family of philosophies behind operant conditioning
- Cognitivism (psychology), a competing theory that invokes internal mechanisms without reference to behavior
- Educational psychology
- Educational technology
- Experimental analysis of behavior
- Exposure therapy
- Habituation
- Matching law
- Negative (positive) contrast effect
- Premack principle
- Reinforcement learning
- Reward system
- Sensitization
- Social conditioning
- Spontaneous recovery
- Jerzy Konorski
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