Lesson 2 - Operant conditioning

Question 1

What is operant conditioning and who discovered it?(what year)

Answer 1

(Skinner, 1948)
The use of of positive or negative factors to influence how behaviours are learnt.

Question 2

What did Skinner believe?

Answer 2

• Free will does not exist
• All human behaviour was a direct result of conditioning

Question 3

What was Skinners experiment called and what were his findings and steps?

Answer 3

(Skinners box)
- Pushing the leaver accidently at first the rats were rewarded
- After the reward rats would more likely push the lever
-Behaviour was influenced by what happened after the behaviour