Box of Skinner
The box of Skinner ( Skinner box ) is an experimental device invented by Burrhus Frederic Skinner with an aim of simplifying the study of the mechanisms of conditioning.
He invented this apparatus to test the capacities of Rongeurs or Pigeon S to undergo a operative Conditionnement, i.e. utilizing the behavior of the animal and the reinforcement of this one by a Stimulus reinforcer (taken food for a positive reinforcement, electric shock for a negative reinforcement).
It simplifies the study of the mechanisms of conditioning, thanks to the automation of the presentation of the stimuli (visual, auditive, noxious - for example electric shock), of the Renforcement S (food and water, in particular), of the recording of the answers of the animal (generally Rat or Pigeon), and of the associations envisaged by the experimenter between them. Thus the experimenter can it make so that food is delivered when the Animal supported a number of times determined on a lever, but only when one its acute was preceded by a green light.
The box of Skinner is to some extent a prolongation of the Thorndike puzzle box used by Edward Thorndike to highlight the training by test-error in the cat.
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