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Type of associative learning process for behavioral modification
Operant conditioning, also called instrumental conditioning, is a learning process in which voluntary behaviors are modified by association with the addition of reward or aversive stimuli. The frequency or duration of the behavior may increase through reinforcement or decrease through punishment or extinction. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Operant conditioningA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Memristor-Based Operant Conditioning Neural Network With Blocking and Competition EffectsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Oecd Economic SurveysThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Operant ConditioningCited 341 times
- Go sideways: ReinforcementA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Motivational salienceA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A technique of behavior modification through positive and negative reinforcement and positive and negative punishment.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Operant Conditioning
Operant conditioning in invertebrates
Operant Conditioning in Skinnerbots
The dynamics of operant conditioning.
Operant Conditioning of Heart Rate
Operant Conditioning of Vasoconstriction.
Operant conditioning treatment of encopresis
Operant conditioning of the GSR.
🆕 Influential since 2022
Memristor-Based Operant Conditioning Neural Network With Blocking and Competition Effects
Memristor-Based Neural Network Circuit of Operant Conditioning Accorded With Biological Feature
Neuromorphic Circuit Implementation of Operant Conditioning Based on Emotion Generation and Modulation
Memristive Circuit Implementation of Operant Cascaded With Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning Neuromorphic Circuit With Addictiveness and Time Memory for Automatic Learning
📚 Books worth reading
Oecd Economic SurveysOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development · 1980
Oecd Economic SurveysOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development · 1995
Rural Denmark and its lessonsH. Rider Haggard · 1911
About behaviourismB. F. Skinner · 1974- 📕Operant conditioningDerek E. Blackman · 1974
The infiltratorRobert Mazur · 2009
Handbook of operant behaviorWerner K. Honig, J. E. R. Staddon · 1977
Contemporary learning theoriesStephen B. Klein · 1989
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