What are advantages and disadvantages for a skinner box?

Question

if possible can i have 3 advantages and 3 disadvantages?

Answer 1

The Skinner box is a controlled environment that can be used to test animal behaviour in relation to various stimuli.

Advantages

- allows for controlled experiments (you can eliminate external factors that might affect your results)

- can be modified for use with different animals (rats, pigeons etc)

- allows for experiments testing for either classical or instrumental conditioning

Disadvantages

- animal is not in it's natural environment (hence limited external validity)

- possibly unethical (depending on what you moral stance on electrocuting animals is)

Ran out of ideas on the disadvantages, but I hope it helps.