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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Operant learning is a process by which a specific behavioural response (such as a lever press) is associated with a biologically salient stimulus known as a reinforcer (such as food).