Giving a hungry rat food for pressing a bar before the rat has a chance to engage in other incidental behaviors like running or scratching best illustrates what?

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Mar 28, 2017

Explanation:

What you're describing here is Skinner's experiment with a rat. He tried to show that you learn through reinforcement and punishment by putting a rat in a box and every time it pressed a lever it would get a pellet of food. After that an electric shock would be given for every time that it pressed the lever.