I tell you frankly, if Paul Aubry is guilty I hope is convicted and punished; but if one of the others is guilty I hope he—or she—is punished, and if I knew anything operant to that end I certainly would not withhold it.
conditioning in which an operant response is brought under stimulus control by virtue of presenting reinforcement contingent upon the occurrence of the operant response
Operant conditioning follows the US psychologist Edward Thorndike's (1874-1949) law of effect' (1911): that responses become more frequent if followed by satisfying consequences but less frequent if followed by aversive consequences Skinner showed that a rat which is rewarded when it operates on' its environment by pressing a lever will increase its number of lever-presses It is therefore associating the stimulus (reinforcement) with its own behavior (response) This is referred to as S-R conditioning (see also, Classical Conditioning, Conditioning) (Ref 3)
(instrumental conditioning) A process by which the results of the person's behavior determine whether the behavior is more or less likely to occur in the future orientation State of awareness of oneself and one's surroundings in terms of time, place, and person overlearning practice that is continued beyond the point of mere mastery of memorized material or of a skill
A process of behavior modification in which the likelihood of a specific behavior is increased or decreased through positive or negative reinforcement each time the behavior is exhibited, so that the subject comes to associate the pleasure or displeasure of the reinforcement with the behavior
the process of increasing or decreasing the likelihood that an individual will produce an active behavior (an operant) as a result of interacting with the environment