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Skinner graduated from Hamilton college. Soon after, he moved to new york and first became a writer. He published small newspaper articles and worked as a bookstore clerk. While working at the bookstore, Skinner stumbled upon a book by Pavlov and Watson and was immediatly intruiged.
For a long time, Skinner was bored with the current ideas in psychology. He deamed them "unintellegent". At 24 years old, he joined the psychology program at Harvard University where he found a mentor who was interested in the behaviors of the animal (the animal as a whole) an not what is happening inside of the brain alone. During his time at Harvard, his experiments were allowed to run wild which lead to the invention of cumulative recorder ( a device which recorded every response in an
upward moving slope that showed the rate of progression).
At 32 years old, skinner married Yvonne Blue and moved to Minnesota where he would find his first teaching job and conceive a baby girl. Due to his new busy lifestyle, he was unable to make very much progress in the field that he had started.
His theory was developed in 1937 he studied operant conditioning by conducting experiments using animals which he placed in a 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.
In 1943, B.F. Skinner also invented the "baby tender. Its a enclosed heated crib with a plexiglass window in response to his wife's request for a safer alternative to traditional cribs.
BF skinner has over his year written a lot of books some of them being Beyond Freedom and dignity published in 1971 ,Walden Two published in 1948 and Verbal Behavior published in 1957
Beyond Freedom and dignity published in 1971 In this work he promoted his own philosophy of science and what he called cultural engineering. The book became a New York Times bestseller.Walden Two published in 1948. It was a controversial book as Skinner rejected the concepts of free will, spirit, and soul. He stated that human behavior is determined by genetic and environmental variables and not by free will.Verbal Behavior published in 1957 in which he analyzed human behavior through the use of language, linguistics and speech. It was a purely theoretical work that was backed by little experimental research.
Beyond Freedom and dignity published in 1971 In this work he promoted his own philosophy of science and what he called cultural engineering. The book became a New York Times bestseller.
January 1 1944 Pigeon Project was Skinner's attempt to use pigeons for missile guidance
In 1968, he received the National Medal of Science from President Lyndon B. Johnson.in 1972, he was given the Humanist of the Year Award of the American Humanist Association
B.F. Skinner invented the Skinner box which is an enclosed apparatus that contains a bar or key that an animal subject can manipulate in order to obtain reinforcement. The skinner box can vary depending on the different type of animal it is, including a lever, bar or key that the animal can manipulate dispensing food, water or some type of reinforcements.
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The operant conditioning works in two ways - reinforcement- which strengthens the behavior for it to be repeated- positive reinforcement strengthens behavior by exposing consequences they find rewarding. Negative reinforcement strengthens behavior by stopping or removing through punishment to lower the undesired behavior.
Skinner believed that the use of punishment should be weighed against the possible negative effects.
EX; When you clean your room and do your chores your parents will let you out the house.
Morgan: https://www.bfskinner.org/archives/biographical-information/