OPERANT CONDITIONING

• WHO SUGGESTED THE IDEA OF OPERANT CONDITIONING?

  Skinner
• WHAT DID SKINNER SUGGEST?

  learning is an active process (learning through consequences of reinforcement or punishment)
• WHAT DID SKINNER DO?

  place rats in "Skinner boxes"
• POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT IN SKINNER'S BOX?

  if lever activated rat was rewarded by food
• WHAT IS POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT?

  gain something pleasant
• NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT IN SKINNER'S BOX?

  electric current run through box, stopped by lever
• WHAT IS NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT?

  avoid something unpleasant