AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Skinner created the operant conditioning chamber as a variation of the puzzle box originally created by Edward Thorndike. While Skinner’s early studies were done using rats, he later moved on to study pigeons. The operant conditioning chamber may be used to observe or manipulate behaviour.

Detailed explanation-2: -Skinner showed how positive reinforcement worked by placing a hungry rat in his Skinner box. The box contained a lever on the side, and as the rat moved about the box, it would accidentally knock the lever. Immediately it did so a food pellet would drop into a container next to the lever.

Detailed explanation-3: -The skinner box, otherwise known as an operant conditioning chamber, is a laboratory apparatus used to study animal behavior within a compressed time frame. Underlying the development of the skinner box was the concept of operant conditioning; a type of learning that occurs as a consequence of a behavior.

Detailed explanation-4: -B. F. Skinner did not use puzzle boxes. Instead, he developed a device known as an operant conditioning chamber, or Skinner box.

Detailed explanation-5: -Skinner is based upon the idea that learning is a function of change in overt behavior. Changes in behavior are the result of an individual’s response to events (stimuli) that occur in the environment. A response produces a consequence such as defining a word, hitting a ball, or solving a math problem.