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 ...

Three things have prevented operant conditioning from developing as a science: a limitation of the method, over-valuing order, and distrust of theory. The method The cumulative record was a fantastic ...

Selectionist sciences such as evolutionary biology and behavior analysis depend on variations. Variations must emerge before environments can act upon them. Yet if first instances in ontogeny are not ...