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Bookmark or Share- B. F. Skinner | Department of PsychologyAccording to Skinner, the future of humanity depended on abandoning the concepts of individual freedom and dignity and engineering the human environment so that behavior was controlled systematically and to desirable ends rather than haphazardly.
- B.F. Skinner - Theory, Psychology & Facts - BiographyAmerican psychologist B.F. Skinner is best known for developing the theory of behaviorism, and for his utopian novel 'Walden Two.'
- B. F. Skinner - WikipediaBurrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher. [2] [3] [4] [5] He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974. [6]
- B.F. Skinner: Biography of the Influential BehavioristB.F. Skinner (1904-1990) was an American psychologist known for his impact on behaviorism. In a 2002 survey of psychologists, he was identified as the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. Skinner himself referred to his philosophy as "radical behaviorism."
- Operant Conditioning In Psychology: B.F. Skinner TheoryA Skinner box, also known as an operant conditioning chamber, is a device used to objectively record an animal’s behavior in a compressed time frame. An animal can be rewarded or punished for engaging in certain behaviors, such as lever pressing (for rats) or key pecking (for pigeons).
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