operant behavior


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op·er·ant be·hav·ior

behavior the continuation of which and frequency is determined by its consequences for the doer; central element of behavioral conditioning theory. See: conditioning.
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Therefore, reinforcement is the term referring to the situation or experimental procedure in which a reinforcer is presented or removed on a certain response or behavior, while the reinforcer is the appetitive or aversive stimulus that appears or disappears when an operant behavior is performed, and results in an increase in the likelihood of occurrence or learning of such behavior (Skinner, 1938; Thorndike, 1932).
Animal models of drug addiction/Modelos animales de adiccion a las drogas
Lattal and Wacker (2015) recently edited a special issue of the Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis on the recurrence of operant behavior. This special issue included a series of articles that described basic and translational studies of resurgence, and provided an excellent summary of the conceptual issues surrounding resurgence.
Introduction to the special section on resurgence
Honig, Operant Behavior: Areas of Research and Application (1966), e de Murray Sidman, Tatics of Scientific Research (1960).
The Foundation of the JEAB and the Historical Isolation of Behavior Analysis/A Fundacao do JEAB e o Isolamento Historico da Analise do Comportamento
However, contextual control of SID would be expected, regardless of whether adjunctive drinking is understood as Pavlovian or operant behavior. Although contextual control of extinction of SID would not allow deciding whether adjunctive drinking is either Pavlovian or operant, finding extinction and contextual control of SID would add to the pool of results suggesting that adjunctive drinking should be understood as conditioned behavior.
Context specificity of extinguished schedule-induced drinking within an ABA renewal design in rats/Especificidad contextual de la extincion de la bebida inducida por programa en un diseno de renovacion ABA en ratas
Renewal after the extinction of free operant behavior. Learning and Behavior, 39, 57-67.
Contrasting ABA, AAB and ABC renewal in a free operant procedure
They describe the history of the field, the experimental analysis of behavior, reflexive behavior and respondent conditioning, reinforcement and extinction of operant behavior, reinforcement, aversive control of behavior, operant-respondent relationships, stimulus control, choice and preference, conditioned reinforcement, correspondence relations (updated for this edition), and three levels of selection: biology, behavior, and culture.
Behavior analysis and learning, 5th ed
Experiments with humans have shown that failure to display effective operant behavior over time leads to the extinction of entire operant classes of behavior.
Toward a comprehensive functional analysis of depressive behavior: five environmental factors and a possible sixth and seventh
Skinner used it to both define a type of operant behavior and as the title of a book.
Questions on verbal behavior and its application to individuals with autism: an interview with the experts
This kind of behavior is called operant behavior in behavior analysis.
The bases for language repertoires: functional stimulus-response relations

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