B. F. Skinner (e.g., Skinner, 1981) and those working in the Skinnerian tradition have mapped in great detail how a behavioral repertoire is selected, shaped, and maintained by its consequences.

Explore today's thought-provoking quote by B.F. Skinner on the nature of failure and the importance of perseverance in personal development. Learn how adopting a resilient mindset can help in ...

Operant extinction is learning to supress a previously rewarded behavior. It is known to be strongly associated with the specific context in which it was acquired, which limits the therapeutic use of ...

The present study describes a task testing the ability of rats to trigger operant behavior by their relative spatial position to inaccessible rotating objects. Rats were placed in a Skinner box with a ...

Operant conditioning is a classical paradigm used in experimental psychology in which animals learn to perform an action in order to achieve a reward. By using this paradigm, it is possible to extract ...

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