January 2025
- Jan 25, 2025ConceptsOperant Conditioning: Consequences and Their LimitsIn 1930, B.F. Skinner placed a rat in a box with a lever. When the rat pressed the lever, a food pellet dropped. The rat pressed more.
- Jan 18, 2025ConceptsUnderstanding Self-Determination Theory and MotivationIn 1971, Edward Deci paid students to solve Soma puzzles they previously enjoyed, and found they spent less time on the puzzles during free time...
- Jan 7, 2025ConceptsLearned Helplessness: Why People Stop Trying to EscapeMartin Seligman and Steven Maier gave dogs inescapable electric shocks in 1967. When later placed in a box where escape was easy, the dogs did not...
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