Contingencies of Reinforcement. Chapter 1: The Role of the Environment. Quote 6

“The class of responses upon which a reinforcer is contingent is called an operant, to suggest the action on the environment followed by reinforcement. We construct an operant by making a reinforcer contingent on a response, but the important fact about the resulting unit is not its topography but its probability of occurrence, observed as rate of emission.” (p. 7)

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