Science and Human Behavior, Chapter 7: Operant Discrimination, Quote 15

“It is not so easy to determine whether we can condition purely reflex responses in striped muscles through operant reinforcement. The difficulty is that an operant response may arise which simply imitates the reflex. One may sneeze, for example, not only because of the pepper but because of special social consequences—”He only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases.” (p. 115)

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