... outside, which gave him the idea to use them as experimental subjects - they became his favorite. With pigeons, he developed the ideas of operant conditioning and "shaping behavior" (R. W. Kentridge). "Unlike Pavlov's "classical conditioning," where an existing behavior (salivating for food) is shaped by associating it with new stimulus (a bell ringing), operant conditioning is the rewarding of a partial behavior or a random act ... ...

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