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).
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.
Honig,
Operant Behavior: Areas of Research and Application (1966), e de Murray Sidman, Tatics of Scientific Research (1960).
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.
Renewal after the extinction of free
operant behavior. Learning and Behavior, 39, 57-67.
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.
Experiments with humans have shown that failure to display effective
operant behavior over time leads to the extinction of entire operant classes of behavior.
Skinner used it to both define a type of
operant behavior and as the title of a book.
This kind of behavior is called
operant behavior in behavior analysis.