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- The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a…
- Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
- Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
- The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
- Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible,…
- Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we…
- The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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