Editing Operant conditioning chamber (section)

== Name ==
[[File:UNMSM PsiExperimental 1998 2.jpg|250px|thumb|Students using a Skinner box]]Skinner was noted to have expressed his distaste for becoming an [[eponym]].<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Skinner BF | date = 1959 | title = Cumulative record | edition = 1999 | location = Cambridge, MA | publisher = B.F. Skinner Foundation | page = 620 }}</ref> It is believed that psychologist [[Clark L. Hull|Clark Hull]] and his [[Yale University|Yale]] students coined the expression "Skinner box". Skinner said that he did not use the term himself; he went so far as to ask [[E. Howard Hunt|Howard Hunt]] to use "lever box" instead of "Skinner box" in a published document.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Skinner BF | date = 1983 | title = A Matter of Consequences. | location = New York, NY | publisher = Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. | pages = 116, 164 }}</ref>