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 ...

A long-standing debate in neuroscience is whether classical and operant conditioning are mechanistically similar or distinct. The feeding behavior of Aplysia provides a model system suitable for ...

Three things have prevented operant conditioning from developing as a science: a limitation of the method, over-valuing order, and distrust of theory. The method The cumulative record was a fantastic ...