Seligman’s theory agrees with Skinner’s operant conditioning theory and is another alternative in operant conditioning because Seligman’s experiment is based on how dogs behave when subjected to shock this is similar to Skinner’s experiment with the rats and they were also subjected to shock. Seligman’s experiment with the dogs included the dogs receiving electric shock when the light appeared for 10 seconds each time. Seligman experimented with the dogs to see if the dogs could escape from the shock completely and he found that the dogs escaped by jumping over the barriers. Seligman found that the dogs learned that the light is the sign of an electric shock and this caused the dogs to escape from the shock. Seligman carried out another experiment
