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operant conditioning  

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  • Operant conditioning is the name of a process by which experience with consequences of behavior alters subsequent behavior, and it is one of the principal means by which we learn to interact with our world. It is also sometimes called instrumental conditioning. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Development; Operant Conditioning]

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