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Operant behavior operates on the environment whereas _____ behavior occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus.
Though initially operant behavior is emitted without an identified reference to a particular stimulus during operant conditioning operants come under the control of stimuli that are present when behavior is reinforced. Such stimuli are called "discriminative stimuli." A so-called "three-term contingency" is the result. That is discriminative stimuli …
Operant behaviors are 'emitted ' meaning that initially they are not induced by any particular stimulus. They are strengthened through operant conditioning (aka instrumental conditioning) in which the occurrence of a response yields a reinforcer.
Operant conditioning - Wikipedia
Operant conditioning - Wikipedia
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The term operant conditioning was introduced by B. F. Skinner to indicate that in his experimental paradigm the organism is free to operate on the environment.
Operant conditioning was developed by B.F. Skinner in 1937 and deals with the management of environmental contingencies to change behavior.
Specifically operant conditioning refers to the three-term contingency that uses stimulus control in particular an antecedent contingency called the discriminative stimulus (SD) that influences the strengthening or weakening of behavior through such consequences as reinforcement or punishment.
The reward system (the mesocorticolimbic circuit) is a group of neural structures responsible for incentive salience (i.e. motivation and "wanting";...

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