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7 Post author: Zaine 10 October 2012 05:30AM

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Comment author: HumanFlesh 12 October 2012 05:10:25AM 0 points [-]

You may want to distinguish classical conditioning from operant conditioning.

Comment author: Zaine 12 October 2012 03:55:06PM 0 points [-]

I thought about that; the original DragonBox example involved operant conditioning instead of classical.

Fortunately Richard's quote provided in footnote three offers an example of operant conditioning. Should I say thus in the footnote itself?