B. F. Skinner
B. F. Skinner
Burrhus Frederic Skinner, commonly known as B. F. Skinner, was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth20 March 1904
CitySusquehana Depot, PA
CountryUnited States of America
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Both teams played hard, and I think it was pretty entertaining. Unfortunately, they were the last one standing.
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We try to change it up, the way we play defense during the game.
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Wesleyan feels they are a major part of this community. We knew that we had the facilities to provide for the memorial, and that's what we wanted to do. It fits our mission being a church-related college, and it fits what Wesleyan is all about.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.
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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
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A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
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What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences