What did Skinner do with rats and pigeons?

I cant find a simple and summed up explanation of what the psychologist B. F Skinner did with rats and pigeons.





Does anyone know because i would be extremely grateful if they could give me a quick summary that tells me exactly what i need to know in simple terms.What did Skinner do with rats and pigeons?
Skinner invited a device called Skinner's Box. It was an operant conditioning chamber. He would put the rats or pigeons inside the box. There would be switches inside the box and whenever the animals touched a specific one, food would dispense. By using this method he taught the animals to walk in a certain pattern. What did Skinner do with rats and pigeons?
Skinner built on the behaviorist theories of Ivan Pavlov and John Watson as he studied the connection between stimuli and observable behavior in rats, which led to his eponymous Skinner box. With its levers and food pellets, the box allowed precise measurement and control of experimental conditions.





Skinner received his PhD from Harvard University in 1931 and spent several years at the University of Minnesota and the University of Indiana, but he returned to Harvard in 1948, remaining there for the rest of his career. During World War II, Skinner convinced the military to fund his research--the famous Project Pigeon--to train pigeons to guide bombs and torpedoes. Skinner favored pigeons over rats because they live longer and he found them easier to train and handle.





Skinner's animal research underscored the importance of consequences (i.e., rewards or punishments), and of breaking tasks into smaller parts and rewarding success on these small parts, in creating behavior change.





He believed the methods could be used to train humans--by presenting new subject matter in a series of graduated steps with feedback at each step. Modern computer-based instructional methods are based on his findings.






look up BF skinner..


he did operant conditioning, conditioning behavior. he taught the rats and the pigeons to do what he wanted by constantly reinforcing their behaviors.
Operant conditioning. Look it up and you will find out far more than I can type here.