I'm not sure what problem there would be with a bar to press or a button to
push in a crib.  If you can teach pigeons to read that way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ctJqjlrHA it should work on kids, too.

Rick Stevens
Psychology Department
University of Louisiana at Monroe
stevens.r...@gmail.com
SL - Evert Snook


On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu> wrote:

> [snip]
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> Part of the problem might be with the colloquial use of the term
> "Skinner box".  Traditionally, an operant chamber was informally
> referred to as a Skinner box but when people started to refer to
> the air crib as a Skinner box it is quite possible that people might
> have though Deborah Skinner was being forced to bar press or
> peck at a lit disk in order to get food, water, and/or attention.
>
> ...
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