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 ...

Portions of this paper were originally presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, October 1990. Operant conditioning is commonly thought of as the process that ...

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Operant conditioning advanced rapidly at first. The discovery of schedules of reinforcement revealed unsuspected regularities. Each new reinforcement schedule yielded a new pattern of cumulative ...