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What is operant conditioning?

What is operant conditioning? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (psychology) A technique of behavior modification through positive and negative reinforcement and positive and negative punishment
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Clicker training is the application of positive reinforcement according to operant conditioning theory as first put forward by B. F. Skinner.
We trained squirrel monkeys to either raise or lower blood pressure using operant conditioning technology.
A combination of classical and operant conditioning, clicker training enforces the relationship between animal and human.
The neurofeedback treatment relies on established principles of operant conditioning and learning, and the results can be objectively documented.
The premises of the theories that underlie behavior therapy, specifically operant conditioning, address both omitted and committed behaviors.
They are based largely on physiologist Ivan P. Pavlov's conditioned-reflex theory, psychologist B. F. Skinner's operant conditioning theory, and, most especially, psychologist Albert Bandura's social learning theory.

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