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Also known as GO:0035106, instrumental conditioning, Reinforcement learning

learning to anticipate future events on the basis of past experience with the consequences of one's own behavior

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Operant conditioning, also called instrumental conditioning, is a learning process in which voluntary behaviors are modified by association with the addition (or removal) of reward or aversive stimuli. The frequency or duration of the behavior may increase through reinforcement or decrease through punishment or extinction.

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