B. F. Skinner first introduced operant conditioning experiments. What happens in these experiments?

A. An animal learns to associate its behavioral response with an instinct.
B. An animal learns to associate its behavioral response with a reward or a punishment.
C. An animal learns to associate its behavioral response with a fixed action pattern.
D. An animal learns to associate its behavioral response with its biological clock.
E. An animal learns to associate its behavioral response with a conditional stimulus.


Answer: B

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