BF Skinner explains operant conditioning.
1. Has the pigeon in the experiment been trained to read?
2. How is such behavior produced?
3. What is the relationship between the pigeon's behavior and human gambling behavior?
4. How does Skinner view the question of free will? If all our behavior can be reduced to stimulus and response, how can we be free?
To finish, a quotation on free will from Skinner's seminal book Beyond Freedom and Dignity.
In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment.