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instrumental conditioning

NOUN
  1. operant conditioning that pairs a response with a reinforcement in discrete trials; reinforcement occurs only after the response is given

How To Use instrumental conditioning In A Sentence

  • B.F. Skinner emphasised that during instrumental conditioning an organism learns a response by operating on its environment.
  • It also gave us the belief, probably misguided, that there are two fundamental learning processes: classical and instrumental conditioning.
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