Operant Conditioning is correlated with operant behaviour. With the help of such experiments, Skinner put forward the theory of operant conditioning for learning simple responses as well as most difficult and complex series of responses. The type of responses ‘elicited’ by known stimuli are respondent behaviour. For example – teacher say whoever does drill work properly, he would be exempted from homework. Negative Reinforcement :- It is a stimulus, the removal or withdrawal of which, increases the likelihood of a particular behaviour. For example – food, praise, grades, medals etc. Positive Reinforcement :- It is a stimulus, the introduction or presentation of which, increases the likelihood of a particular behaviour. ReinforcementĪ reinforcement is the stimulus, the presentation or removal of which, increases the probability of a response being repeated. In this form of conditioning, operant (response with stimuli) is allowed to occur and is followed by a reinforcing stimulus, for which there is a increased likelihood that the operant will occur again.

It is a type of learning that involves an increase in the probability that a response will occur as a function of reinforcement. It is a process of learning whereby Stimulus-Response become associated through training, organism can be ‘conditioned’ to do certain events.

These are Responses whose original Stimuli are either unidentified or non-existent. An operant is an act which constitutes an organism’s doing something.

Xperiment by Dan Skinner