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Dictionary of Vocational Psychology
Instrumental learning experiences
An important construct in Mitchell and Krumboltz's (1996) learning theory of career choice and counseling, instrumental learning experiences involve the punishment or reinforcement of an individual's behavior or skills. Contrasted with associative learning experience. Instrumental learning experiences help to account for why individuals engage in certain academic or job-related activites, and indirectly for why they come to feel in certain ways about those activities.
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