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Barba, Lourenco de Souza – Behavior Analyst, 2012
Some researchers claim that variability is an operant dimension of behavior. The present paper reviews the concept of operant behavior and emphasizes that differentiation is the behavioral process that demonstrates an operant relation. Differentiation is conceived as change in the overlap between two probability distributions: the distribution of…
Descriptors: Probability, Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning, Animals

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