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Slide 2Organisms behave, a live animal is not the same as a dead animal.
Slide 3Not only do animals behave, they "learn" - they benefit from experience.
Slide 4A critical factor in that adaptation is the occurrence of reinforcement.
Slide 5One way to conceptualize reinforcement is as something that strengthens a bond between a stimulus and a response or as something that strengthens a behavior in the presence of a stimulus.
Slide 6Alternatively, reinforcement can be seen as selecting one behavior out of many or as differentially strengthening one behavior rather than others.
Date Last Reviewed : August 19, 2002