Operant conditioning is a procedure for controlling behavior, explored and exploited most notably by B. F. Skinner, followed by many subsequent researchers. It involves shaping the behavior of an ...

Portions of this paper were originally presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, October 1990. Operant conditioning is commonly thought of as the process that ...

Intracranial stimulation was used as a reinforcer to condition fighting in paired rats. Stimulation for an implanted animal was made contingent upon responses which successively approximated those ...

Karen Pryor is a behavioral biologist, a pioneering dolphin trainer, and an authority on applied operant conditioning—the art and science of changing behavior with positive reinforcement. Her book, ...

Rats will readily work for the acquisition of nesting material. Paper strips serves as an adequate reinforcer. .. Prior to parturiation, only a small daily nest was built and barpressing occurred only ...