One of my students teaches her puppy to roll over using positive reinforcement (If it was negative reinforcement, the dog could have just ran away)....
Burrhus Frederic Skinner invented the operant conditioning chamber, innovated his own philosophy of science called Radical Behaviorism and founded his own school of experimental research...
This is a demonstration of operant conditioning in the goldfish. We use a device called the Fish Stick (PetSci LLC) which presents discriminative stimuli in...
BF Skinner's Shaping Experiment (Skinner's Box) An adherent to Watson's theory of behaviorism, BF Skinner was able to demonstrate how one can modify behavior through...