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87 Years Ago, a Legendary Psychologist Discovered Skinner’s Law. It’s Still the Secret to Sticking With Your New Year’s Resolution
If you took an intro to psych course back in high school or college, you may remember B.F. Skinner as the father of “behaviorism.” He’s the guy who trained rats and pigeons to press levers ...
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skinner box
The Raspberry-Pi controlled, IoT Skinner box for rats, named Nicodemus. [Kurt] has created a portable, internet-connected, automated food dispenser with a live streaming video feed and the ability ...
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Hedge Funds Seek to Hire Artist’s Rat Traders
Eighty rats were placed in Skinner boxes (the glass-walled enclosures, developed by psychologist B. F. Skinner, widely used in behavioral experiments with animals) and trained to press a green ...
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The Magic Flute Of Rat Mind Control Aims To Mix Magic And Science
The Raspberry-Pi controlled, IoT Skinner box for rats, named Nicodemus. [Kurt] has created a portable, internet-connected, automated food dispenser with a live streaming video feed and the ability ...
Opinion
Commentary: Accountability for Met Council hurts
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 ...