Which of the following types of learning is strengthened each time a response is followed by a satisfying state of affairs and weakened if the response is followed by an unsatisfying state of affairs?
a. operant conditioning
b. respondent conditioning
c. classical conditioning
d. Pavlovian conditioning
ANSWER: a
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