B.F. Skinner, a psychologist who later expanded on these ideas, is most commonly associated with operant conditioning. He conducted extensive research, particularly with animals, to understand the ...

Operant conditioning chamber ("Skinner Box") with two feeding hoppers, used in psychological experiments on learning in the rat, used at the Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool. Campden ...

Behaviorist B.F. Skinner described operant conditioning as the process in which learning can occur through reinforcement and ...

This is called classical conditioning. In operant conditioning, coined by B.F. Skinner, we learn through reinforcement or punishment. We avoid touching a pot of boiling water, for example ...

This principle, central to B.F. Skinner’s work on operant conditioning, has been misunderstood, dismissed, or even mocked in certain educational theories. Nevertheless, Skinner's basic claim remains ...

What is operant conditioning and how does it apply to how we train our horses? We have already looked at how the first two levels of learning theory apply to our horses in this exclusive series on ...

That device (named Nicodemus) is used as a Skinner Box to train rats — anywhere rats may be found — using operant conditioning to make them expect food when they hear a few bars of Black ...