Skinner experiments

Skinner looked at what motive an action and its effect, from this, he believed that the consequences that follow an action motivate the behaviour.
He placed a rat in a box ('skinner box'), which had different keys that the animal had to press in order to get food or water.  The rat would press the key accidentally while walking around the box and food will be obtained, subsequently, it would learn that when that key is pressed, food will be obtained, therefore, this behaviour will be repeated.
On the other hand, when the rat showed a behaviour that Skinner did not want them to repeat, he applied electric shocks to them, which reduce the repetition of that behaviour.


References
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McLeod, S. (2015). B.F. Skinner | Operant Conditioning | Simply Psychology. [online] Simplypsychology.org. Available at: http://www.simplypsychology.org/operant-conditioning.html [Accessed 12 Nov. 2015].