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"operant conditioning" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the psychological phenomenon where someone's behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment. For example: "The teacher used a system of rewards and punishments based on operant conditioning to help the student improve their schoolwork."
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operant conditioning
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A technique of behavior modification through positive and negative reinforcement and positive and negative punishment
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Skinner called this "operant conditioning," and considered it as effective for people as for their pets.
Every cat with an owner, for instance, is running a small-scale study in operant conditioning.
The processing of rewards is basal for operant conditioning.
However, studies addressing operant conditioning in BPD patients are rare.
We used the following operant conditioning protocol to train our animals.
Self-administration sessions were conducted in standard operant conditioning chambers (Med Associates, St. Albans, VT, USA).
The operant conditioning chambers were housed in sound-attenuating chambers (Med Associates, Georgia, VT).
During an operant conditioning procedure, an individual modifies its behavior based on learned consequences.
Handling zoo animals this way began in the nineteen-eighties, using "operant conditioning" techniques borrowed from performing-animal handlers.
Making a soldier stronger and better through stress inoculation and operant conditioning seems a bit Kubrickian -- and unsettling.
The self-administration stations consisted of operant conditioning chambers (Coulborn Instruments, Allentown, PA) enclosed in sound-attenuating, ventilated environmental cubicles.
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