operant behavior

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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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CS suppresses or accelerates the rate of an operant response) Pavlovian effects may have modulated operant behavior during resistance to change tests (i.

Do Pavlovian Processes Really Mediate Behavioral Momentum? Some Conflicting Issues

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

Tenders are invited for Operant Behavior Testing System (Animals) For The Department Of Pharmacology At All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur

Operant Behavior Testing System (animals For The Department Of Pharmacology At All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur

Lattal and Wacker (2015) recently edited a special issue of the Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis on the recurrence of operant behavior.

Introduction to the special section on resurgence

Measurement of operant behavior in rodents has been used to analyze various dimensions of the impulsivity.

El tiempo en el area central del laberinto en cruz elevado correlaciona con medidas relacionadas a impulsividad durante una tarea operante

However, contextual control of SID would be expected, regardless of whether adjunctive drinking is understood as Pavlovian or operant 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

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

Response acquisition under targeted percentile schedules: A continuing quandary for molar models of operant behavior.

El juego del "Dilema del Prisionero" con cuatro participantes y un agente selector externo: un experimento metacontingencial

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

The purpose of this article is to argue that the same data and data language used to establish the concept that tension is reflexive or is a respondent can be reinterpreted to unequivocally demonstrate that muscular tension is an instrumental or operant behavior.

Muscular tension: an explanation from a methodological behaviorism

This kind of behavior is called operant behavior in behavior analysis.

The bases for language repertoires: functional stimulus-response relations

Behavioral history: a promising challenge in explaining and controlling human operant behavior.

The type of reinforcer as a modulating variable of history in humans effects/ Tipo de reforcador como variavel moduladora dos efeitos da historia em humanos