Physical Education A-Level
Operant conditioning
What Operant conditioning means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Operant conditioning
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Learning explained as a change in behaviour produced by the consequences that follow a response, associated with Skinner.
Topics that use Operant conditioning
- Principles and theories of learning and performance (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Associative stage
- Attention, retention, reproduction and motivation
- Causes of plateau
- Cognitive stage
- Cognitive, associative and autonomous stages of learning
- Feedback types: positive, negative, extrinsic and intrinsic
- Gestalt psychology and whole-pattern perception
- Insight learning and Gestalt theory
Using Operant conditioning in the exam
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