Skinner believed no such thing and never said anything remotely like this. For example, in his 1966 “The Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Behavior,” which has the revealing subheading ...

B.F. Skinner gave us concepts like “conditioned behavior,” “positive reinforcement,” and even “time-outs” for children. But he was also a radical among psychologists who cast aside ...

The Operant Conditioning Theory 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 ...

Burrhus Frederic Skinner was one of the preeminent American psychologists of the 20th century. B.F. Skinner founded “radical behaviorism”—a twist on traditional behaviorism, a field of ...

Skinner’s theory of behavioral selection, when merged an information processing view of the nervous system, provides the causal explanatory framework for the emergence of Mind.

B.F. Skinner, one of the century’s leading psychologists who believed human behavior could be engineered to build a better world, died of leukemia. He was 86.

B.F. Skinner was a renowned behavioral psychologist who began his career in the 1930s and is best known for his development of the Skinner box, a laboratory apparatus used to conduct and record ...

Psychologist B.F. Skinner taught these pigeons to play ping-pong in 1950. Photo via Psychology Pictures B.F Skinner, a leading 20th century psychologist who hypothesized that behavior was caused ...

B. F. Skinner’s notorious theory of behavior modification was denounced by critics 50 years ago as a fascist, manipulative vehicle for government control. But Skinner’s ideas are ...

B.F. Skinner is not nearly as famous as Freud, and if you Google his name you won't find nearly as many hits as you will even for Jean Piaget. And yet it could be argued that his influence on ...