Confess System: Picking Up Girls After Girls, Try Not to Get Killed! - Chapter 13 The Intermittent Reinforcement Theory

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At university, Skinner crafted a box for psychological experiments, later known as the "Skinner Box." He frequently used rats or pigeons for his experiments in this box. Among Skinner's many achievements, the concept of "intermittent reinforcement" emerged, discovered by chance during his exploration of "operant conditioning."

Before this serendipitous finding, Skinner discovered through experimentation that animals would develop a conditioned reflex of "pressing the switch for ...