Operant conditioning is B.F. Skinner’s name for instrumental learning: learning by consequences. Not a new idea, of course. Humanity has always known how to teach children and animals by means of ...

The field of behavioural psychology investigates the ways in which reinforcement schedules shape actions across both human and non-human subjects. By systematically varying the contingencies of ...

One of psychology’s few unquestioned verities is behaviorism: You get more of what you reward, less of what you punish. And some nuances can make behaviorism, often called behavior modification, ...