A procedure, named after its originator, which requires animals to repeat timed responses to avoid brief unsignalled FOOTSHOCK delivered at regular intervals. For example, footshock can be given every 5 seconds except if a lever press occurs. By Orders...

A stimulus cue that signals to an animal that REINFORCEMENT will be available if and when a specific RESPONSE is made. See also: discrimination; drug...

The experimental analysis of behavior is the name given to school of psychology founded by B. F. Skinner, and based on his philosophy of radical behaviorism. A central principle was the inductive, data-driven[1] examination of functional relations, as...