about B. F. Skinner at the 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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Operant conditioning chamber (redirect from Skinner Box)
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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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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Operant conditioning (section B. F. Skinner)
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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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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Julie Skinner Vargas (born 1938) is an American educator who has written extensively on the science of behavior. Vargas is the daughter of B.F. Skinner and...
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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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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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ISBN 978-0-13-171728-2. OCLC 12726275. Chomsky, Noam; Skinner, B.F. (1959). "A Review of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior". Language. 35 (1): 26–58. doi:10...
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(later Project Orcon, for "organic control") was American behaviorist B. F. Skinner's attempt to develop a pigeon-controlled guided bomb. The testbed was...
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The Behavior of Organisms (category Works by B. F. Skinner)
"Review of B.F. Skinner's The Behavior of Organisms". Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (1988), 50(2), pp. 283–286. Skinner, B.F. (1938)....
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Instinctive drift (section B.F. Skinner)
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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Controversially, the author also describes the urban legend that B.F. Skinner raised his child in his Skinner box, a kind of Operant conditioning chamber, in a way...
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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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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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learning. Much later, Norman Crowder developed the Pressey idea further. B. F. Skinner was responsible for a different type of machine which used his ideas...
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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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as the fourth most frequently cited psychologist of all time, behind B. F. Skinner, Sigmund Freud, and Jean Piaget. In April 2025, Badura became the first...
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studies on what would make the most effective learning environment. B. F. Skinner was also influential in developing the technique, noting that, ...errors...
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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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for all seasons", The Guardian, June 25, 2004 Skinner, B. F. A Matter of Consequences. 1938 Skinner, B. F. Walden 2. 1942 Schulz, Kathryn (October 19,...
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in psychology. By the end of the 20th century, he was second only to B. F. Skinner as the most-cited psychologist. Piaget was born in 1896 in Neuchâtel...
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Herrnstein was considered a "star pupil" of B. F. Skinner while working for his PhD at Harvard. He worked with Skinner in the Harvard pigeon lab that he ran...
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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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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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physical events. Behaviorists typically did not research these subjects. B. F. Skinner, a functionalist behaviorist, criticized certain mental concepts like...
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years of B. F. Skinner. Monitor on Psychology, 35(3). https://www.apa.org/monitor/mar04/skinner Sobel, Dava (August 20, 1990). "B. F. Skinner, the Champion...
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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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cognitive development by theorists like Jean Piaget, Lawrence Kohlberg, B. F. Skinner, Carol Gilligan, and Judith Smetana. Moral development often emphasizes...
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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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