Reinforcement quotes
12 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent."
"Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion."
"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State."
"We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement."
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