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 ...

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 ...

Let's discover Watanabe's brilliance by finding out why he chose to name Lazarus's villain after the Father of Operant Conditioning, B. F. Skinner.

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 ...