Operant conditioning chamber
An operant conditioning chamber is a laboratory apparatus used to study animal behavior. The operant conditioning chamber was created by B. F. Skinner while he was a graduate student at Harvard University. The chamber can be used to study both operant conditioning and classical conditioning.
Students using a Skinner box
A rat presses a button in an operant conditioning chamber.
On the left are two mechanisms including two levers and light signals. There is a light source and speaker above the box and an electrified floor at the bottom.
A laboratory is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. Laboratories are found in a variety of settings such as schools, universities, privately owned research institutions, corporate research and testing facilities, government regulatory and forensic investigation centers, physicians' offices, clinics, hospitals, regional and national referral centers, and even occasionally personal residences.
The Schuster Laboratory, University of Manchester (a physics laboratory)
Laboratory, Brecon County School for Girls
Chemistry laboratory of the 18th century, of the sort used by Antoine Lavoisier and his contemporaries
Thomas Edison in his laboratory, 1901
