Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1940 (earlier Skinner apparatus, 1938), from U.S. psychologist B.F. Skinner (1904-1990).
Usage examples of "skinner box".
Thousands of research studies have been done on animals in the Skinner Box.
Therefore, the most common textbook examples of operant or instrumental conditioning are a rat pressing a bar in a Skinner Box or a pigeon learning to peck a light to get food (See 4 in Table 4.
Clearly, the rats in the Skinner box were salivating just like Pavlov's dogs, but it wasn't measured and, in general, neither was any other emotional, physiological, brain function, or reflexive reactions (e.
While Aaron ground himself through the velvet gears, Sam watched the workings of the most elaborate Skinner box on the face of the Earth.
You were raised in that Skinner box, that rat maze, and yet you're maybe the most modest guy I know.
Like most modern markets, the Federal was constructed like a Skinner box-modern marketing techniques turn all customers into white rats.
Its not that I dont like Paul, Felix, and Trevor, all members of Michaels now-defunct band, Skinner Box.