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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. conditioning in which an operant response is brought under stimulus control by virtue of presenting reinforcement contingent upon the occurrence of the operant response; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

operant conditioning \op"er*ant con*di"tion*ing\, n. (Psychol.)
   A process for causing animals to behave in a specific manner
   by rewarding or punishing the animal each time it performs a
   certain act; after a time, the animal comes to associate the
   reward or punishment with the act, and will increase or
   decrease the frequency of performing that act.
   [PJC]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

operant conditioning
    n 1: conditioning in which an operant response is brought under
         stimulus control by virtue of presenting reinforcement
         contingent upon the occurrence of the operant response