Operant conditioning is B.F. Skinner’s name for instrumental learning: learning by consequences. Not a new idea, of course. Humanity has always known how to teach children and animals by means ...

Operant Conditioning. By the late 1930s, B.F. Skinner (Burrhus Frederic, if you’re wondering) had expanded Watson’s ideas, developing the theory of operant conditioning.

Operant conditioning: Alligators in captivity respond to dog-like training by: Olivia Yepez. Posted: Jul 29, 2023 / 03:01 PM EDT. Updated: Jul 31, 2023 / 11:35 PM EDT.

B.F. Skinner invented the "operant conditioning" or "Skinner" box. Skinner believed that the best way to understand behavior is to look at the causes of an action and its consequences.

Operant conditioning is commonly thought of as the process that teaches pigeons to peck levers, rats to run mazes, bears to dance, and dolphins to leap. Whether you appreciate the product, the process ...