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Marian Breland Bailey (born Marian Ruth Kruse; December 2, 1920 – September 25, 2001) [1] was an American psychologist, an applied behavior analyst who played a major role in developing empirically validated and humane animal training methods and in promoting their widespread implementation.
An operant conditioning chamber (also known as a "Skinner box") is a laboratory apparatus used in the experimental analysis of animal behavior. It was invented by Skinner while he was a graduate student at Harvard University .
Mary Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American academic, inventor, and ethologist.She is a prominent proponent of the humane treatment of livestock for slaughter and the author of more than 60 scientific papers on animal behavior.
William D. Timberlake (19 November 1942 – 17 October 2019) was a psychologist and animal behavior scientist. [1] [2] [3] His work included behavioral economics, contrast effects, spatial cognition, adjunctive behavior, time horizons, and circadian entrainment of feeding and drug use.
Patricia Bean McConnell, Ph.D, CAAB Emeritus (née Patricia Bean; born November 16, 1948) is an ethologist who consulted with pet dog and cat owners for over thirty years regarding serious behavioral problems, has given seminars on companion animal behavior both domestically and internationally, and has written several books on training and behavior relating to their dogs.
The more times an animal would perform the behavior before reaching a break point, the more reinforcing the drug was, and the more liable the drug was to be abused. [1] [3] Brady also utilized a drug substitution procedure, in which he tested whether animal subjects could discriminate between an initial training drug and a second test drug.
Marc Bekoff (born September 6, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American biologist, ethologist, behavioral ecologist and writer. [1] He is Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder and cofounder of the Jane Goodall Institute of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and cofounder of the Jane Goodall Roots and Shoots program.
He then worked as a colleague with B. F. Skinner at Harvard University, where they established the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior in 1958. While at Harvard, he devised errorless learning to train animals, and used other forms of what was then termed behavior modification for clients with depression and obesity.