Prediction and control of operant behavior are major goals of behavior analysis. We suggest that achieving these goals can benefit from doing more than identifying the three-term contingency between ...

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 ...

Abstract By way of operant conditioning, human behavior is continuously shaped and maintained by its consequences - and understanding this process is important to most fields of psychology and ...

Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience (LIN), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, United States Considering the impact of timing and sex in determining the ...

System Emotional Science, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan A skinner box (30 cm × 25 cm × 35 cm) was used for behavioral testing (Figure 1A) ...

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 of ...