| Learning Process | Explanation of Process |
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| Acquisition | Strengthening of a reinforced operant response |
| Extinction | Diminishing of the operant response when it is no longer reinforced |
| Spontaneous recovery | Temporary recovery in the operant response rate following a break during extinction training |
| Stimulus generalization | Giving the operant response in the presence of stimuli similar to the discriminative stimulus (the more similar, the higher the response rate) |
| Stimulus discrimination | Learning to give the operant response only in the presence of the discriminative stimulus |