Pigeons were presented with two buttons in a Skinner box, each of which led to varying rates of food reward.

The experimental apparatus they used has come to be called a Skinner box.

You were raised in that Skinner box, that rat maze, and yet you're maybe the most modest guy I know.

Hughes viewed the Internet as "the ultimate Skinner box," by which he meant a highly accurate gauge of human behavior.

Yes, it's not too hard to imagine what a bunch of suits would do with that artfully constructed "Skinner box."

Skinner developed what came to be known as the Skinner box.

The Skinner box led to the principle of reinforcement, which is the probability of something occurring based on the consequences of a behavior.

This cumulative recorder was used for the Skinner box to record the rat's behavior.

"It's not that we don't believe in the Skinner box," Mr. Robinson said.