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Smologies #23: MAMMALS with Danielle N. Lee

Ologies with Alie Ward

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Positive Reinforcement: How to Reduce Unpleasantness

Operant conditioning is a name for one way that we learn things. With positive reinforcement, the behavior trying to be taught is reinforced with a reward being added to this situation. Negative reinforcement would be removing something bad from the situation as your reward. The program teaches rats how to find certain chemical smells from land mines.

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