Skinner, who based the idea on ... on their tablet if they finish their homework is an example of positive reinforcement. Negative reinforcement would be a child finishing their homework to ...

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 ... Training tools like clickers can facilitate a positive training experience. With negative reinforcement, something bad or unwanted is taken away ...

She was so successful at training dolphins that she began applying the same techniques to other creatures, including dogs — ...

Skinner trained small animals, lab rats and pigeons, by subjecting them to alternating schedules of positive and negative reinforcement – food pellets and electric shocks – while confined in ...