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Meaning of "Skinner box" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SKINNER BOX

Named after B. F. Skinner.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SKINNER BOX

Skinner box play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SKINNER BOX

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Skinner box is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SKINNER BOX MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Skinner box

Operant conditioning chamber

An operant conditioning chamber is a laboratory apparatus used in the experimental analysis of behavior to study animal behavior. The operant conditioning chamber was created by B. F. Skinner while he was a graduate student at Harvard University. It may have been inspired by Jerzy Konorski's studies. It is used to study both operant conditioning and classical conditioning. Skinner created the operant chamber as a variation of the puzzle box originally created by Edward Thorndike...

Definition of Skinner box in the English dictionary

The definition of Skinner box in the dictionary is a device for studying the learning behaviour of animals, esp rats and pigeons, consisting of a box in which the animal can move a lever to obtain a reward, such as a food pellet, or a punishment, such as an electric shock.

WORDS THAT END LIKE SKINNER BOX

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Synonyms and antonyms of Skinner box in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Skinner box» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SKINNER BOX

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The translations of Skinner box from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Skinner box» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

斯金纳箱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

caja de Skinner
570 millions of speakers

English

Skinner box
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्किनर बॉक्स
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

صندوق سكينر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Скиннер окно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

caixa de Skinner
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্কিনের বাক্স
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

boîte Skinner
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kotak Skinner
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Skinner -Box
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スキナー箱
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

스키너 상자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kothak Skinner
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

hộp Skinner
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஸ்கின்னர் பெட்டி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्किनर बॉक्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Skinner kutusu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

scatola di Skinner
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Skinner box
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Скіннер вікно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cutie Skinner
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Skinner box
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Skinner box
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Skinner box
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Skinner box
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Skinner box

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SKINNER BOX»

The term «Skinner box» is normally little used and occupies the 126.152 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Skinner box

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SKINNER BOX»

Discover the use of Skinner box in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Skinner box and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of ...
Traces developments in human psychology over the course of the twentieth century, beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of the child raised in a box.
Lauren Slater, 2005
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Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of ...
Through ten examples of ingenious experiments by some of psychology's most innovative thinkers, Lauren Slater traces the evolution of the century's most pressing concerns—free will, authoritarianism, conformity, and morality.
Lauren Slater, 2005
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Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of ...
This title provides an account of the 20th century's key psychological experiments, by the author of 'Prozac Diary'.
Lauren Slater, 2005
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Beyond the Box: B.F. Skinner's Technology of Behaviour from ...
Beyond the Box is the first full-length study of the ways in which Skinner's ideas left the laboratory to become part of the post-war public's everyday lives, and chronicles both the enthusiasm and caution with which this process was ...
Alexandra Rutherford, 2009
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B. F. Skinner: A Reappraisal
Similarly, the Skinner box is not only a piece of equipment designed and widely used for the study of acquired behaviour in animals: it has been exploited to investigate, with unprecedented efficiency, a number of other aspects of behaviour in ...
Marc Richelle, 1995
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Psychology: Concepts and Applications
B. F. Skinner Skinner box An experimental apparatus developed by B. F. Skinner for studying relationships between reinforcement and behavior. operant conditioning The process of learning by which a response is strengthened by means of ...
Jeffrey Nevid, 2008
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What is Psychology? Essentials
This device, now called a Skinner box, is a chamber large enough to house a small animal, typically a rat or pigeon. Inside the chamber is a lever or bar that the rat can press down. When the animal depresses the lever or bar, it receives ...
Ellen Pastorino, Susann Doyle-Portillo, 2008
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Adaptive Behaviour and Learning
Early studies of learning all used situations where locomotion was essential to reward. The second category comprises mainly so-called free-operant or Skinner -box experiments, in which the animal must press a lever or peck a lighted key for  ...
J. E. R. Staddon, 1983
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Psychology
To study operant conditioning, Skinner devised a chamber that, despite his objections, became known as the Skinner box. This chamber differed from Thorndike's puzzle box in an important way: The puzzle box measured learning in terms of ...
Douglas Bernstein, Louis A. Penner, Alison Clarke-Stewart, 2007
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Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Pharmacological Assays
A removable water bottle was located on one side of each Skinner box through a hole of 1.0cm diameter, positioned 2 cm above the grid floor. When water was not required, the water bottle was removed. Licks at the spout of each water bottle ...
Hans Vogel, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SKINNER BOX»

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Digital Learning Games Must Be More Than Skinner Boxes
I appreciate the conversation on video games as learning tools. It's a very important discussion, and I'm not saying this just because I think video games present ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
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Applying The Addictive Psychology Of Slot Machines To App Design
The Skinner box works by blending tension and release — the absence of a pellet after the lever is pressed creates expectation that finds release via reward. «Co.Design, May 15»
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Trading places – with a rat
The Skinner box acquired an unpleasant reputation: rumours circulated that Skinner raised one of his own daughters in one, that she lost her mind, that she ... «Financial Times, Oct 14»
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BF Skinner at Harvard
Burrhus Frederic Skinner, known to the academic world as B.F. Skinner, ... Later known as the Skinner Box, the apparatus was instrumental in pursuing the study ... «Harvard Crimson, Oct 14»
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Baseball's quirky superstitions
The combination of frequent failure and semi-randomized success turns the baseball field into a giant Skinner box. // //. //. In one of the more famous conditioning ... «AMERICAblog, Oct 14»
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Skinner-box rats trained to predict currency market movements
The rats are kept in Skinner boxes, and are trained by playing them piano scores whose pitch reflects actual historical currency market fluctuations; when the ... «Boing Boing, Sep 14»
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Stopping The Spread Of Gaming's Most Offensive Mechanic, The …
It's probably the single most counter-consumer, Skinner Box-styled trick of gaming in existence today. It's the idea that in order to goad players into paying, the ... «Forbes, Jul 14»
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Why Social Media is so Addictive
“Well,” I said, “You look sort of like a lab rat in a Skinner box.” ... This guy Skinner trained lab rats to press a lever whenever a light came on – they got food as a ... «Fox Business, Jul 14»
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Nicholas Lovell: Free-to-play gamers are tired of Skinner Boxes, and …
Speak to free-to-play detractors, and many will argue that the model reduces games to mere Skinner Boxes, with titles designed to trick players into parting with ... «Pocket Gamer.Biz, Nov 13»
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BF Skinner totally geeks out over the box he built for his baby
The Skinner Box, as applied to human infants, was not what you think it was. Psychologist B.F. Skinner did not raise his daughter inside a box without human ... «Boing Boing, Sep 13»

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