{"id":8640,"date":"2019-05-22T16:09:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/operant_-or_instrumental-_conditioning\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:09:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:54","slug":"operant_-or_instrumental-_conditioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/operant_-or_instrumental-_conditioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Operant (or instrumental) conditioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning the relationship between one&#8217;s own behaviour and its environmental consequences. &nbsp;A process of learning in which the relative frequency of a response increases as the result of a reward or reinforcement contingent on the response that is emitted (see figure below). &nbsp;Also called respondent conditioning and Skinnerian conditioning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Operant-conditioning.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">Operant conditioning: modification due to positive or negative consequences,&nbsp;where S1n =initial stimulus (often unknown), Re = response, SRf =reinforcing stimulus or reinforcement = consequences of behavior, + = rewardingstimulus, and \u2013 = negative or aversive stimuli (not the same aspunishment).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"avoidance_learning\">Avoidance learning<\/a>, <a href=\"behaviorism\">Behaviorism<\/a>, <a href=\"classical_conditioning\">Classical conditioning<\/a>, Delayed conditioning, <a href=\"discrimination\">Discrimination<\/a>, <a href=\"escape_learning\">Escape learning<\/a>, <a href=\"learning\">Learning<\/a>, <a href=\"mobile_conjugate_reinforcement\">Mobile conjugate reinforcement<\/a>, <a href=\"operant_train_task\">Operant train task<\/a>, <a href=\"paradigm\">Paradigm<\/a>, <a href=\"positive_reinforcement\">Positive reinforcement<\/a>, <a href=\"reinforcement_schedule\">Reinforcement schedule<\/a>, <a href=\"reinforcer\">Reinforcer<\/a>, <a href=\"stimulus_generalization\">Stimulus generalization<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning the relationship between one&#8217;s own behaviour and its environmental consequences. &nbsp;A process of learning in which the relative frequency of a response increases as the result of a reward or reinforcement contingent on the response that is emitted (see figure below). &nbsp;Also called respondent conditioning and Skinnerian conditioning.&nbsp; Operant conditioning: modification due to positive &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/operant_-or_instrumental-_conditioning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Operant (or instrumental) conditioning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}