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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American While second nature to many of us, driving a ...

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 ...