Contingencies of Reinforcement. Chapter 5: Operant behavior. Quote 18

“Peterson has shown that imprinting in the young duckling is largely a matter of being reinforced by increasing proximity to the mother or imprinted object; increased proximity is reinforcing even when, thanks to a mechanical contrivance, the duckling achieves it by walking away from its mother.” (p. 128)

 

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