as the “Skinner box”: in it, a rat or pigeon pressed a lever to get a ­pellet of food, or was encouraged to move from one side of the box to the other as the walls were heated up. From ...

Operant conditioning chamber ("Skinner Box") with two feeding hoppers, used in psychological experiments on learning in the rat, used at the Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool. Campden ...

He built his own version of a Skinner box, a device designed by behavioural scientist B.F. Skinner to conduct learning experiments on rats. In the original Skinner box experiments, rats would push ...