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Skinner box

A device that automatically released food in response to an animal manipulating a specific object (e.g., pressing a bar) to test "operant conditioning", named after the classic experiments of psychologist B. F. Skinner who trained rats and pigeons to press a lever in order to obtain a food reward.

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