Discuss operant conditioning Non material realms also?

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Apophenia is the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena

Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists

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i could not find the source of this FDR speech. can you give me a source OP?

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what are these taken from?

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All branchs of psychology, not only the operant conditioning, are guilty of tought policing.

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Conditioning, in the behaviorism school of psychology, can be broken down into two types: classical and operant.
In classical conditioning, the stimulus, whether it be pleasure or pain, is presented before or during the manifestation of the behavior to be conditioned.
In operant conditioning, the stimulus is presented after the behavior appears.
The canonical example of classical conditioning is a bell that is rung before a dog is given food. Once the conditioned response appears, the dog will salivate when you ring the bell again.
An example of operant conditioning: B.F. Skinner would observe a pigeon, and when it did something unusual, like stretch it's neck, he would give it a food pellet. Pretty soon, the pigeon would repeat the neck stretching, or whatever behavior Skinner conditioned, any time it became hungry and wanted more food.
Skinner believes that operant conditioning is the source of most, if not all, superstitions, through the agency of accidental reinforcement. For example, a professional baseball player fails to wash his socks before a game, and then goes on a righteous hitting streak. Now the chance event, dirty socks, has been conditioned by the hitting streak, and the baseball player stops washing his socks in the hopes that he will have another hitting streak.