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Operant Conditioning
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Operant conditioning is a learning process in which voluntary behaviors are modified by association with the addition or removal of reward or aversive stimuli. Skinner, referred to as its father, built the framework on observable behavior and consequences, and invented the operant conditioning chamber (Skinner Box). Its roots trace to Thorndike's law of effect, systematically developed in Skinner's 1938 book The Behavior of Organisms.
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Core ClaimVoluntary behaviors are strengthened or weakened by the reward or aversive stimuli that follow them, with rate of response as the key measure of behavior strength. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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The chamber is the instrument through which operant conditioning was demonstrated and studied.
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a learning process in which voluntary behaviors are modified by association with the addition (or removal) of reward or aversive stimuli
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The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis...initiated his lifelong study of operant conditioning
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