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CheckPoint - Skinner Article

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Axia College of the University of Phoenix

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Learning: Skinner Article

Burrhus Frederic Skinner's contributions to psychology are clearly evident in but not limited to parent and toddler and dog owner and pet relationships. Intricately, the relationships involve operant conditioning, punishment, positive reinforcement, and the belief in superstitions as defined and deployed by Skinner. Operant conditioning involves the regulation of behavior by its consequences.

Skinner had determined that through operant conditioning each step toward learning a behavior is reinforced and theorized this form of behavioral condition to be the best way to instruct and learn. "Reinforcement is...