Reinforcement
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In behavioral psychology, reinforcement refers to consequences that increase the likelihood of an organism's future behavior, typically in the presence of a particular antecedent stimulus. For example
A chicken riding a skateboard
Operant conditioning
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Operant conditioning, also called instrumental conditioning, is a learning process in which voluntary behaviors are modified by association with the addition of reward or aversive stimuli. The frequen
Reinforcement
…trained to push a lever to receive food whenever a light is turned on; in this example, the light is the antecedent stimulus, the lever pushing is the operant behavior, and the food is the reinforcer. Likewise, a student that receives attention and praise when answering a teacher's question will be more likely to…
B.F. Skinner at the Harvard Psychology Department, c. 1950