Complementing gamification is nudge theory, the behavioral economics framework developed by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein ...
The following is, for the most part, an excerpt of a book chapter I'm working on for an APA book series: Psychologists have a long history of ignoring (e.g., Koch, 1964), not understanding (e.g., ...
Arthur W. Staats, Ph.D., inventor of "time-out" and the Token Reinforcer System, and a forefather of cognitive behavioral psychology, has passed. Staats was born in 1924 in New York. Following his ...
Operant conditioning, sometimes called instrumental conditioning or Skinnerian conditioning, is a method of learning that uses rewards and punishment to modify behavior. Through operant conditioning, ...
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