"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 response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Academics from the United StatesPhilosophers from the United StatesPoets from the United StatesPsychologists from the United StatesInventors
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Science and Human Behavior (1953)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Related Quotes
"A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how tβ¦"
"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless."
"Man's power appears to have increased out of all proportion to his wisdom. He has never been in a better position to β¦"
"Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive."
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature β¦"
"The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine alβ¦"
"Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to speciaβ¦"
"We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word "admire" then means "marvel at.""
"It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is coβ¦"