THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
CONSCIOUSNESS
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A laboratory apparatus used to study animal behavior.
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A relatively permanent change in an organism’s behavior due to experience
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The persistence of learning over time.
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The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to elicit similar responses
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Detailed explanation-1: -An operant conditioning chamber allows researchers to study animal behaviour and response to conditioning. They do this by teaching an animal to perform certain actions (like pressing a lever) in response to specific stimuli.
Detailed explanation-2: -The operant conditioning chamber, often called the Skinner box, is a laboratory device derived from Thorndike’s puzzle box and from the mazes familiar to students of learning in rats by the time Skinner started his career.
Detailed explanation-3: -The purpose of the Skinner box is to analyze animal behavior by detecting when an animal has performed a desired behavior and then administering a reward, thus determining how long it takes the animal to learn to perform the behavior.
Detailed explanation-4: -The operant conditioning chamber, or “Skinner box”, is a standard apparatus used in the experimental analysis of animal behavior.
Detailed explanation-5: -Skinner conducted his studies on rats and pigeons in specially made boxes, called the Skinner Box. A hungry rat (one at a time) is placed in the chamber, which was so built that the rat could move inside but could not come out.