operant

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In operant conditioning, the animal does not learn a new behavior in response to a stimulus, whereas in classical conditioning, the animal learns to associate a non-voluntary behavior with an unusual stimulus.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Clive Wynne, founding director of the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University, ascribed the talking dogs’ skills to operant conditioning rather than an understanding of the words they seem to use.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 6, 2021

The Twittering Machine, as a wholly designed operant conditioning chamber, needs none of the expedients of the casino or opium den.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2019

Calvin Trillin told the story in more detail for the New Yorker in the 1990s, but Marian and Keller Breland, a couple who both studied operant conditioning under B.F.

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2018

Verbal and operant responses of young children to vocal versus instrumental song performances.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin