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If you took an intro to psych course back in high school or college, you may remember B.F. Skinner as the father of “behaviorism.” He’s the guy who trained rats and pigeons to press levers ...

If you took a psychology class in high school or college, you may remember something about the work of B.F. Skinner ... Skinner’s main insight can still be used to shape human behavior ...

He took inspiration from B.F. Skinner, the famous behaviorist who had devised a test chamber to study learning in rats. The Skinner box, as it became known, dispensed food pellets when rats pushed ...

(Photo credit: E+/Getty Images) Operant conditioning was first described by psychologist B.F. Skinner. His theory was based on two assumptions. First, the cause of human behavior is something in a ...

To quote its creator, B.F ... the Skinner Box, both of which played crucial parts in Project Pigeon. Skinner's theory of Operant Conditioning relied on the assumption that creature behavior ...

It is said that the psychologist B. F. Skinner discovered many of the functions of this reinforcement by chance when a disruption to the automated food system for pigeons in his lab led to food ...

Shortly after Freud’s intellectual star rose, so did that of Harvard University psychologist B.F. Skinner, who could trace his academic lineage back to Watson’s behaviorism. By placing rats ...

smartly named ‘behaviorism.’ Although there were previous iterations of the idea, it was B.F. Skinner, known as the champion of behaviorism, who popularized the idea that one can understand a ...

I met BF Skinner when I was in grad school studying Applied Behavior Analysis. For me, meeting Dr. Skinner was the equivalent of a nursing student meeting Florence Nightingale, a medical student ...