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 ...

B.F. Skinner created the operant conditioning chamber (aka the Skinner box) as a grad student at Harvard in the 1920's. Now widely used by college psychology students everywhere, this apparatus allows ...

Operant conditioning is a theory that explains how behaviors are influenced by their consequences or results. It’s often used today to help people adopt new behaviors or change old habits. If you’ve ...