Skinner developed the operant conditioning chamber, later known as the Skinner Box, to study animal behavior. The chamber or box has a key or bar that can be pressed so that the animal obtains a ...

Operant conditioning (behavior modification) is a metaphor for accountability. B.F. Skinner was an experimental psychologist at the University of Minnesota in the 1940s whose name and work came to ...

Skinner applied the idea of reinforcement and punishments to this idea and cultivated his Operant Conditioning Theory. Skinner first tested this theory with his “Skinner Box” in 1948 ...