(Photo credit: E+/Getty Images) Operant conditioning was first described by psychologist B.F. Skinner. His theory was based on two assumptions. First, the cause of human behavior is something in a ...

Skinner argued that humans don’t really think — that they merely respond to environmental cues. He came up with various therapeutic techniques, including “operant conditioning,” which ...

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 ...

Psychologist B.F. Skinner was a proponent of operant conditioning as a means to the modification of human behavior; positive or negative reinforcement could be used to promote certain behaviors.

That is, to operant condition them. In the 1930's, B. F. Skinner developed the concept of operant conditioning. He put pigeons and rats in Skinner boxes to study how he could modify their behavior ...

B.F. Skinner dubbed his own method of observing behavior “operant conditioning,” which posited that behavior is determined solely by its consequences—either reinforcements or punishments.

Operant conditioning occurs all around us, both in humans and in animals, with or without our knowledge. Burrhus Frederic Skinner, commonly known as B.F. Skinner, was an American psychologist who ...

That is, to operant condition them. In the 1930's, B. F. Skinner developed the concept of operant conditioning. He put pigeons and rats in Skinner boxes to study how he could modify their behavior ...

Operant Conditioning Theory is not unique to dog training. It was coined by American psychologist B.F. Skinner in 1937, developed from Edward Thorndike’s Law of Effect. Thorndike theorized that ...