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Operant Conditioning Chapter 5 Summary

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While reading chapter 5, Operant Conditioning, I found a lot of things that were new to me. For example, the “discovery” of operant conditioning. Operant conditioning is the process whereby organisms learn to make responses to obtain or avoid certain outcomes. Operant conditioning is a deceptively simple-sounding process, but it can be used to train fantastically complex behaviors. In my lifetime, an example of this can be having chores and receiving an allowance for completing each. As a kid, my brother and I were required to complete chores around our house. Our parents would have spilt these chores up, but we could complete others if we did not want to do each such as me taking some of my brother’s chores. I was always one to go ahead and

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