operant conditioning

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   conditioning in which an operant response is brought under stimulus control by virtue of presenting reinforcement contingent upon the occurrence of the operant response

   Broaderconditioning

   Narrowerinstrumental conditioning

Questions about operant conditioning

What does operant conditioning mean?

operant conditioning means "conditioning in which an operant response is brought under stimulus control by virtue of presenting reinforcement contingent upon the occurrence of the operant response".

Is operant conditioning a common word?

operant conditioning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.