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When a behavior is followed by a rewarding outcome, the animal is more likely to repeat that behavior – a clear example of operant conditioning in action. (Credit: AndreasJS, CC BY-SA 4.0, via ...

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such as B.F. Skinner's theory of operant conditioning, argued that the environment always controlled people’s behavior. Such theories suggested that people were just passive recipients of ...

Abstract: Operant conditioning (OC) and secondary conditioning are two important mechanisms for organisms to adapt to external environments. However, most memristor-based neural network circuits only ...

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