Operant conditioning is a theory and method about how people change behavior. It's based on the idea that people do thing that bring pleasant results and stop those that don't. ... Reinforcement ...

A reinforcement schedule is a component of operant conditioning that states which behaviors will be reinforced. It involves a set of rules determined by the time and number of responses required ...

Operant conditioning advanced rapidly at first. The discovery of schedules of reinforcement revealed unsuspected regularities. Each new reinforcement schedule yielded a new pattern of cumulative ...

Sex and Cocaine Dose Effect on the Choice Between Cocaine and Food Reinforcement Acquisition of operant responses. The number of days to meet criterion for self-administration acquisition for ...

Negative Reinforcement vs Positive Punishment In instances of operant conditioning, punishment is designed to reduce a specific behavior. Punishment , like reinforcement, can be positive or negative.

The paucity of definitive data on operant conditioning under delayed reinforcement in the preverbal infant stimulated the present research. A series of four interrelated experiments was undertaken ...

Operant conditioning advanced rapidly at first. The discovery of schedules of reinforcement revealed unsuspected regularities. Each new reinforcement schedule yielded a new pattern of cumulative ...