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Gerhardstein, Peter; Kraebel, Kimberly; Tse, James – Behavior Analyst Today, 2006
The purpose of the current article is to highlight the importance of operant techniques in developmental research. Although many researchers employ operant techniques within their individual fields of study, the pervasive nature of these techniques is not often acknowledged in the general literature. The present article describes the history of…
Descriptors: Infants, Operant Conditioning, Child Development, Cognitive Development

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