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What is operant conditioning? How do reinforcement, punishment, and extinction apply to operant conditioning?

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This solution discusses what operant conditioning is and how reinforcement, punishment, and extinction apply to it. The text contains 233 words.

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Instrumental or operant conditioning is an associative form of learning where pairing of a response with an outcome changes the future strength of the response. Instrumental conditioning seems to depend either on an association between stimulus and response (e.g., stimulus is lever and response is lever pressing), or between a response and a stimulus (e.g., response is lever pressing and stimulus ...

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