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B.F. Skinner
Title: B.F. Skinner
Category: Society & Culture / People
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B.F. Skinner
B.F. Skinner
Psychologist, born in Susquhanna, Pa. He studied at Harvard, teaching there (1931-6, 1947-74). A leading behaviorist, he is a proponent of operant conditioning, and the inventor of the Skinner box for facilitating experimental observations.
B. F. Skinner’s entire system is based on operant conditioning. The organism is in the process of “operating” on the environment, which in ordinary terms means it is bouncing around the world, doing what it does. During this “operating,” …showed first 75 words of 1430 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1430 total…way to blame it on his brother, or in some way escape the consequences, and he’s back to his old ways.
B. F. Skinner made numerous contributions to the science of behavior.
He strongly influenced the area of learning that he named operant
conditioning. His Skinner box is now a standard apparatus for the
experimental study of animal behavior. Much of his work involved the study
of how reinforcement schedules influence learning and behavior.
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