Operant conditioning (behavior modification) is a metaphor for accountability. B.F. Skinner was an experimental psychologist at the University of Minnesota in the 1940s whose name and work came to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rat infestation in many world cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington, and a new study blames warming temperatures, urbanization and other human actions.

Rat infestation in many world cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington, and a new study blames warming temperatures, urbanization and other human actions. A first-of-its-kind ...

A total of 136 animals were used (Wistar rats, n=36, and Zebrafish, n=100). In both experiments, the animals were divided into two groups (Control and Deca) and were exposed to nandrolone decanoate ...

The researchers say that the conclusion reached with the rat experiment lays a solid foundation for future investigations into the potentially revolutionary Parkinson’s Disease treatment “This ...

“Look away,” a group of first-year medicine students were told as their demonstrator stuck a metal rod into the rat’s head, cutting its brain stem so that it wouldn’t feel pain. Its tail jerked.

I have an addictive personality. There’s a psychology experiment done on rats by B.F. Skinner called the operant conditioning chamber, or Skinner box. A rat presses a button and is immediately ...

Operant conditioning (behavior modification) is a metaphor for accountability. B.F. Skinner was an experimental psychologist at the University of Minnesota in the 1940s whose name and work came to ...

Eighty rats were placed in Skinner boxes (the glass-walled enclosures, developed by psychologist B. F. Skinner, widely used in behavioral experiments with animals) and trained to press a green ...