operant conditioning
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of operant conditioning
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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This type of learning is an example of operant conditioning.
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
The experimental psychologists have recently found that visceral organs can be taught to do various things, as easily as a boy learns to ride a bicycle, by the instrumental techniques of operant conditioning.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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