OPERANT CONDITIONING

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Meaning:

Conditioning in which an operant response is brought under stimulus control by virtue of presenting reinforcement contingent upon the occurrence of the operant response

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("operant conditioning" is a kind of...):

conditioning (a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "operant conditioning"):

instrumental conditioning (operant conditioning that pairs a response with a reinforcement in discrete trials; reinforcement occurs only after the response is given)

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