Tag: reinforcement

The only way to tell whether a given event is reinforcing to a given organism under given conditions is to make a direct test.

“The only way to tell whether a given event is reinforcing to a given organism under given conditions is to make a direct test....

The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called ‘conditioning’

“The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called ‘conditioning’. In operant conditioning we ‘strengthen’ an operant in the sense of making...