| They are based largely on physiologist Ivan P. Pavlov's conditioned-reflex theory, psychologist B. F. Skinner's operant conditioning theory, and, most especially, psychologist Albert Bandura's social learning theory. |
| The second type of learning technique is instrumental learning, or conditioning, also called operant conditioning. |
| Every cat with an owner, for instance, is running a small-scale study in operant conditioning. |
| According to the operant conditioning theory, this positive result may have reinforced the efforts made and behaviours adopted. |
| Clicker training is the application of positive reinforcement according to operant conditioning theory as first put forward by B. F. Skinner. |
| We trained squirrel monkeys to either raise or lower blood pressure using operant conditioning technology. |
