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 ...

The field of behavioural psychology investigates the ways in which reinforcement schedules shape actions across both human and non-human subjects. By systematically varying the contingencies of ...

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 ...