This is called classical conditioning. In operant conditioning, coined by B.F. Skinner, we learn through reinforcement or punishment. We avoid touching a pot of boiling water, for example ...

Operant conditioning was introduced by the psychologist B. F. Skinner, who based the idea on Thorndike's law of effect. The basic idea behind the law of effect is that the consequences of behavior ...

Operant conditioning chamber ("Skinner Box") with two feeding hoppers, used in psychological experiments on learning in the rat, used at the Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool. Campden ...

Behaviorism is a theory of learning based on the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning, and conditioning ...