5th Assignment, Topic related to psychology

Hi to everyone!
Well this year we have been studying a lot of interesting topics, but there's one that called my attention more than the others, and that was Operant Conditioning.
This because with this information I could train my animals to do certain behaviors, and I found it very funny and interesting. Operant Conditioning consist of form an association between a behavior and a consequence, to make the desired behavior be more often in the future (if the consequence is good, if it's bad it'll tend to reduce the behavior). We are realizing an experiment with a Rat (it's called Yawght) in the subject (Learning psychology it's called) and we've got to make it push a button, and then it recieves food. This is to improve the times that the rat pushes the button. As I said, I like it because I can "teach" my pets to do things to recieve something, I already have teached my cat to do a certain behavior in a certain time.
Take care!

Links:
http://www.wagntrain.com/OC/#Operant
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/nru/opcond.html
http://www.bfskinner.org/Operant.asp