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It knows how to use operant conditioning — the same techniques used to train a dog — to turn young men and women into efficient killers.

Verbal and operant responses of young children to vocal versus instrumental song performances.

Clive Wynne, founding director of the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University, ascribed the talking dogs’ skills to operant conditioning rather than an understanding of the words they seem to use.

Even Devine says that she thinks Bunny’s “speech” is primarily operant conditioning, where Bunny has made an association between pressing a button and something happening.

The Twittering Machine, as a wholly designed operant conditioning chamber, needs none of the expedients of the casino or opium den.