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 ...

First-year psychology students routinely study B.F. Skinner‘s experiments in conditioning patients to respond to certain stimuli. Perhaps network managers should take a lesson from psychology and ...

BF Skinner is one of the big names in contemporary psychology, and his place in the history books was sealed when he was still just a student. During his time at Harvard University during the thirties ...