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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...