Skinner took Edward Thorndike's ideas and put them together to invent the Skinner Box. He had created something that was like a closed maze and had the rats learn the response to the stimulus. In his experiments, Skinner had developed the basic concept of operant conditioning. This type of learning was not the result of stimulus-response learning. BF Skinner is known as the father of operant conditioning. His work is based on Thorndike's law of effect. He had studied operant conditioning by conducting several experiments using animals. Skinner had used the animals for the “Skinner Box” experiment. He had identified three types of responses/operants that act with this behavior. These three types are neutral operant, reinforcers, and editors. (The history of operant conditioning.