1 Also known as instrumental conditioning.

2 The seminal work on operant conditioning is The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis by Burrhus F. Skinner, Appleton-Century, 1938; a nice contemporary book on the subject is Don’t Shoot the Dog: The New Art of Teaching and Training by Karen Pryor, Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1999.

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