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    about B. F. Skinner at Internet Archive Works by B. F. Skinner at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) I was not a lab rat, response by Skinner's daughter...
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    known as a Skinner box) is a laboratory apparatus used to study animal behavior. The operant conditioning chamber was created by B. F. Skinner while he...
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  • science Skinner, B. F. "Science and Human Behavior", 1953. New York: MacMillan Skinner, B.F. (1948). Walden Two. Indianapolis: Hackett Skinner, B. F. "Verbal...
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  • science of behavior. Vargas is the daughter of B.F. Skinner and is the president of the B. F. Skinner Foundation, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is...
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  • (later Project Orcon, for "organic control") was American behaviorist BF. Skinner's attempt to develop a pigeon-controlled guided bomb. The testbed was...
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  • Beyond Freedom and Dignity (category Works by B. F. Skinner)
    psychologist B. F. Skinner. Skinner argues that entrenched belief in free will and the moral autonomy of the individual (which Skinner referred to as...
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  • wrestler Steve Keirn in early 1990s B. F. Skinner, American Psychologist Skinner, Missouri, an unincorporated community Skinner Butte, a prominent hill beside...
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  • behaviorism is a "philosophy of the science of behavior" developed by B. F. Skinner. It refers to the philosophy behind behavior analysis, and is to be...
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  • Walden Two (category Works by B. F. Skinner)
    Walden Two is a utopian novel written by behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner, first published in 1948. At that time, it was considered as science fiction...
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  • Writer Jon Vitti named him after behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner. An original idea for Skinner was that he would continually mispronounce words. He...
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  • 7–13. Skinner, Burrhus Frederick (1957). Verbal Behavior. Acton, Massachusetts: Copley Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-58390-021-5. Skinner, B. F. (1969)...
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  • its natural behaviour. B.F. Skinner was an American behaviourist inspired by John Watson's philosophy of behaviorism. Skinner was captivated with systematically...
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  • B. Watson (1912), who coined the term "behaviorism", and then B. F. Skinner who developed what is known as "radical behaviorism". Watson and Skinner rejected...
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    sense was life worth living?" Israel went on to study behaviorism under B. F. Skinner and to receive his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1960. In 1966, Israel...
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  • stimulus concept was essential to behaviorism and behavioral theories of B. F. Skinner and Ivan Pavlov in particular. Within such a framework several kinds...
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  • physical events. Behaviorists typically did not research these subjects. B. F. Skinner, a functionalist behaviorist, criticized certain mental concepts like...
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  • individuals across a variety of species. A key early scientist was B. F. Skinner who discovered operant behavior, reinforcers, secondary reinforcers...
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    learning. Much later, Norman Crowder developed the Pressey idea further. BF. Skinner was responsible for a different type of machine called GLIDER, which...
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    Verbal Behavior (category Works by B. F. Skinner)
    psychologist B. F. Skinner, in which he describes what he calls verbal behavior, or what was traditionally called linguistics. Skinner's work describes...
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  • Psychologen". www.bfp-fbp.be. Foundation, B. F. Skinner. "The B. F. Skinner Foundation". The B. F. Skinner Foundation. "BPS". www.bps.org.uk. "Inicio...
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  • differential reinforcement of successive approximations. It was introduced by B. F. Skinner with pigeons and extended to dogs, dolphins, humans and other species...
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  • contingency management. The three-term contingency was first defined by B. F. Skinner in the early 1950s. It is often used within ABA to alter the frequency...
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  • Controversially, the author also describes the urban legend that B.F. Skinner raised his child in a Skinner box in a way which many perceived as being poorly researched...
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  • Somatosensory system Tact (psychology), a type of verbal operant described by B. F. Skinner The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) Actors Orphanage, formerly The Actors'...
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    then-retired B.F. Skinner, and convinced him to begin pigeon research again at the Psychology Department at Harvard University. Epstein and Skinner began collaborating...
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    known for its Pennsylvania Bluestone quarries. The behavioral scientist B. F. Skinner was born in Susquehanna. The American writer John Gardner lived the...
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  • under some form of stimulus control. For example, in the analysis of B. F. Skinner, verbal behavior is a complicated assortment of behaviors with a variety...
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    as the fourth most frequently cited psychologist of all time, behind B. F. Skinner, Sigmund Freud, and Jean Piaget. During his lifetime, Bandura was widely...
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    bipolar disorder". USA Today. "Mariette Hartley's autobiography and John B. Watson" — article about the children of psychologists Watson and B. F. Skinner...
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  • best-known members are philosopher W. V. O. Quine, Jf '36; behaviorist B. F. Skinner, Jf '36; double Nobel laureate John Bardeen, Jf '38; economist Paul...
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