All Conditioning and Behavior Analysis Theories

Behavior theorists, including Albert Bandura described the processes of modeling, behavioral rehearsal, and reinforcement which are the basis of the Skillstreaming approach.

Edward Thorndike developed the first three "Laws of learning": readiness, exercise, and effect.

Operant conditioning, also called instrumental conditioning, is a learning process in which voluntary behaviors are modified by association with the addition (or removal) of reward or aversive stimuli.

A behavioral cusp is any behavior change that brings an organism's behavior into contact with new contingencies that have far-reaching consequences.

Errorless learning was an instructional design introduced by psychologist Charles Ferster in the 1950s as part of his studies on what would make the most effective learning environment.

The Good Behavior Game (GBG) is a classroom management strategy used to increase self-regulation, group regulation and stimulate prosocial behavior among students while reducing problematic behavior.

Positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS) is a set of ideas and tools used in schools to improve students' behavior.

Precision teaching is a precise and systematic method of evaluating instructional tactics and curricula.

A token economy is a system of contingency management based on the systematic reinforcement of target behavior.

The Premack principle, or the relativity theory of reinforcement, states that more probable behaviors will reinforce less probable behaviors.

Programmed learning (or programmed instruction) is a research-based system which helps learners work successfully.

Classical conditioning (also respondent conditioning and Pavlovian conditioning) is a behavioral procedure in which a biologically potent stimulus (e.g. food, a puff of air on the eye) is paired with a neutral stimulus (e.g. the sound of a musical triangle).

Discrete trial training (DTT) is a technique used by practitioners of applied behavior analysis (ABA) that was developed by Ivar Lovaas at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Applied behavior analysis (ABA), also referred to as behavioral engineering, is a psychological discipline that uses respondent and operant conditioning to change human and animal behavior.

Radical behaviorism is a "philosophy of the science of behavior" developed by B. F. Skinner.

The law of effect, or Thorndike's law, is a psychology principle advanced by Edward Thorndike in 1898 on the matter of behavioral conditioning (not then formulated as such) which states that "responses that produce a satisfying effect in a particular situation become more likely to occur again in that situation, and responses that produce a discomforting effect become less likely to occur again in that