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 ...

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 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 ...