Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Tricks for Treats: How Long Does It Take to Train Your Pet?
Have you ever been to an animal show and seen a sea lion balance a ball on his nose, or a tiger jump through a hoop? Or maybe you've met dogs who can sit, fetch, shake, or beg on command. The range of tricks that you can teach animals is...
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Valdosta State: The Behavioral System
Excellent review of behavioral psychology. Presents the four types of behavioral theories in outline form. Has links to more details.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Annual Box Rat Training Competition
This Access Excellence class project describes what students need to raise and train rats using the methods pioneered by the psychologist B.F. Skinner.
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg University: Personality Theories: b.f. Skinner
This biographical survey of the behaviorist B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) also discusses his writings (Walden II) and his theories on aversive stimulus, shaping, and the like.
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg University: Carl Rogers (1902 1987)
A profile of psychotherapist Carl Rogers that surveys his life and theory of client-centered therapy. Provides several important biographical details, as well as charts and maps about Rogers' theories.
University of California
Berkeley Edu: Animal Behavior [Pdf]
Observable coordinated responses to stimuli. Originates with genes that direct the formation of tissues and organs of the animal body (nervous & endocrine systems).
PBS
Pbs: A Science Odyssey b.f. Skinner
Brief biographical information, insight on Skinner's ideas and beliefs, and an explanation of operant conditioning.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cats and Dogs and Conditioning
Read the passage about cats and dogs and conditioning and then complete the five questions following.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Test Prep: Mcat: Behavior: Learning: Classical and Operant Conditioning Article
Conditioning is a type of learning that links some sort of trigger or stimulus to a human behavior or response. When psychology was first starting as a field, scientists felt they couldn't objectively describe what was going on in...
Sea World Parks & Entertainment
Sea World: Animal Training: Animal Behavior & Learning
Details how marine mammals at Sea World learn by different techniques, including operant conditioning, positive reinforcer, and others.