B.F. Skinner is a scientist. and a skinner box is a plexiglass box where scientists put lab rats in to do research on them.

Skinner. He was the one behind the rat and levers "Skinner's box" experiment.

In short, mmorpgs are an example of a Skinner Box in action. The player gets rewards from completing quests or growing crops, and get punished for not playing too often (your plants die, for example).

It's worth noting that as far as Skinner is concerned everything humans or animals interact with in the environment is represented by the 'Skinner box'.

Another name for Operant Conditioning is instrumental conditioning.

The cast of Skinner Box - 2008 includes: Taylor Hadsell as Little Girl Joanna Krupa as Samantha Jenny Shakeshaft as Catherine Angela Trimbur as Victoria