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    B. F. Skinner

    American behaviorist

    Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974. Skinner developed behavior analysis, especially the philosophy of radical behaviorism, and founded the experimental analysis of behavior, a school of experimental research psychology. He also used operant conditioning to strengthen behavior, considering the rate of response to be the most effective measure of response strength. To study operant conditioning, he invented the operant conditioning chamber, and to measure rate he invented the cumulative recorder. Using these tools, he and Charles Ferster produced Skinner's most influential experimental work, outlined in their 1957 book Schedules of Reinforcement. Skinner was a prolific author, publishing 21 books and 180 articles. Wikipedia

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    Skinner was born in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, to Grace and William Skinner, the latter of whom was a lawyer.Skinner became an atheist after a Christian teacher tried to assuage his fear of the hell that his grandmother described. [14] His brother Edward, two and a half years younger, died at age 16 of a cerebral hemorrhage. [15]Skinner's closest friend as a young boy was Raphael Miller, whom ...
  3. britannica.com

    Jan 31, 2025B.F. Skinner (born March 20, 1904, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died August 18, 1990, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American psychologist and an influential exponent of behaviourism, which views human behaviour in terms of responses to environmental stimuli and favours the controlled, scientific study of responses as the most direct means of elucidating human nature.
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  4. simplypsychology.org

    Feb 2, 2024B.F Skinner is regarded as the father of operant conditioning and introduced a new term to behavioral psychology, reinforcement. Operant conditioning is a method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior. Through operant conditioning, an individual makes an association between a particular behavior and a consequence.
  5. verywellmind.com

    May 16, 2024B.F. Skinner created a math teaching machine that offered immediate feedback after each problem. Although the initial device did not actually teach new skills, eventually, Skinner was able to develop a machine that delivered incremental feedback and presented the material in a series of small steps until students acquired new skills, a process ...
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    Feb 7, 2025B. F. Skinner was born on March 20, 1904. He went on to become an influential psychologist who first described the learning process known as operant conditioning.Skinner played a pivotal role in behaviorism, a school of thought that suggested that all behavior was learned through conditioning processes.. Skinner referred to himself as a radical behaviorist because he believed that psychology ...
  8. bfskinner.org

    B. F. Skinner was born on March 20, 1904 in Susquehanna, a small railroad town in the hills of Pennsylvania just below Binghamton, New York. With one younger brother, he grew up in a home environment he described as "warm and stable". His father was a rising young lawyer, his mother a housewife. Much of his boyhood was spent building things ...
  9. worldhistoryedu.com

    Jul 31, 2024B.F. Skinner was born to William Skinner, a lawyer, and Grace Skinner, a housewife. He grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania, where he developed an early interest in building and inventing devices. Skinner's upbringing in a family that valued education and intellectual pursuits laid the foundation for his future academic achievements.
  10. psychologyfor.com

    When BF Skinner began his studies, behaviorism was basically based on simple conditioning inherited from the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov and popularized by John B. Watson. Explained very briefly, this first approach to behavioral psychology proposed modifying behavior by causing pleasant or unpleasant stimuli to be presented at the same ...

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