Operant Conditioning: B. F. Skinner’s 1938 Analysis of Learning by Consequence, the Scratch-Card in the Trading App, and Why the Long-Term Equity Investor Must Starve the Reflex He Cannot Afford

Cumulative record of a conditioned response showing variable-ratio acquisition, an extinction burst and decay to zero

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