Skinner developed the theory of operant conditioning through research using a mouse. The mice that were used as research and experiment materials were placed in a smooth crate, a skinner box. From the experiments that have been carried out by Skinner using these mice, he stated that teaching and learning activities must pay attention to reinforcement. In this case, reinforcement is closely related to the stimulus and response. In other words, the stimulus and response will get stronger, if given reinforcement.

Reflexive actions are significantly less significant than operant behaviors in an analysis of free will. Operant behaviors are those that change in strength or weakness (occur more or less frequently) in response to environmental consequences.

Choice and decision-making give the appearance that people have free will, but behaviors occur to the extent that they are reinforced. Our choices are governed by the reinforcement produced by those choices. We are inherently incapable of intentionally doing what we do not want to do. Any behavior that someone exhibits despite claiming they didn't want to is actually a manifestation of a different desire.

Free will does not function as an explanation for behavior. More crucially, any science is impossible without the premise of determinism, because cause and effect can no longer be reliably interpreted.

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https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3623&context=honors_theses