Classical and Operant Conditioning

Classical and Operant Conditioning

Introduction

The Skinner box was named after the famous psychologist Burrhus Fredrick Skinner who was one of those psychologists engaged in the proposition of various forms of classical and operant conditioning. Unlike the concepts of John Watson, B.F. Skinner was of the opinion that the internal and mental activities which occur in the psychology of the animals and humans are less productive to be studied rather than their observable behaviors which can be easily observed by the human eye and evaluated. B. F. Skinner was of the view that the best technique of studying the behavior ...