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   What was Skinner's approach to behaviorism?

   • Skinner referred to his approach to the study of behavior as radical behaviorism, which originated in the early 1900s as a reaction to depth psychology and other traditional forms of psychology, which often had difficulty making predictions that could be tested experimentally.

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   What was Skinner's theory of mind?

   • The very idea of “mind” was dismissed as a pre-scientific superstition, not amenable to empirical investigation. Skinner argued that the goal of a science of psychology was to predict and control an organism’s behavior from its current stimulus situation and its history of reinforcement.

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   How does Skinner influence learning and behavior?

   • Based on his experiments with animals, Skinner described two important concepts that can influence learning and behavior: Reinforcement is anything that increases or strengthens a behavior. Reinforcements can either involve the addition of something (known as a positive reinforcer) or the removal of something (known as a negative reinforcer).

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   Does skinner's'superstition' explain the behavior he recorded?

   • Modern behavioral psychologists have disputed Skinner's "superstition" explanation for the behaviors he recorded. Subsequent research (e.g. Staddon and Simmelhag, 1971), while finding similar behavior, failed to find support for Skinner's "adventitious reinforcement" explanation for it.

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   May 16, 2024 · B.F. Skinner made many contributions to psychology. His theory of learning, operant conditioning, made Skinner a leader of behaviorism—and a magnet for controversy.

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   May 14, 2024 · Skinner was attracted to psychology through the work of the Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov on conditioned reflexes, articles on behaviourism by Bertrand Russell, and the ideas of John B. Watson, the founder of behaviourism.

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   Among his contributions were a systematic exploration of intermittent schedules of reinforcement, the shaping of novel behavior through successive approximations, the chaining of complex behavioral sequences via secondary (learned) reinforcers, and “superstitious” (accidentally reinforced) behavior.

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   Skinner referred to his approach to the study of behavior as radical behaviorism, which originated in the early 1900s as a reaction to depth psychology and other traditional forms of psychology, which often had difficulty making predictions that could be tested experimentally.

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   Nov 5, 2021 · B. F. Skinner was an advocate for behaviorism and believed that psychology should be the science of observable behavior. His work contributed to our understanding of operant conditioning and how reinforcement and punishment can be used to teach and modify behaviors.

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   Apr 2, 2014 · American psychologist B.F. Skinner is best known for developing the theory of behaviorism, and for his utopian novel 'Walden Two.'

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   Oct 29, 2013 · No other figure in the history of psychology has contributed so much to the science and theory of behavior, and to psychology as a whole, as B. F. Skinner. His systematic experimental research on operant learning in the early 1930s laid the foundation for a natural science of behavior, which evolved into a unified discipline: behavior analysis.