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A 3 page paper which examines the life and work of B.F. Skinner, with a focus on operant conditioning. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and it is his work on human behavior that forever changed the subject of psychology. The following paper examines his life and then discusses his most famous discovery operant conditioning,
which altered the way in which people looked at human behavior. B.F. Skinner "Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born March 20, 1904, in the small Pennsylvania town of Susquehanna" (Boeree,
1998). He was born to a lawyer father and a mother who was apparently very strong as well as intelligent (Boeree, 1998). After going to school and getting his BA
in English he felt he wanted to be a writer and left to go to Greenwich Village where he lived the bohemian lifestyle (Boeree, 1998). He did some traveling and
then returned to school, attending Harvard where he got his masters in psychology and then moving on to get his doctorate (Boeree, 1998). "In 1945, he became the chairman
of the psychology department at Indiana University" and then he returned to Harvard where he remained until 1990 when he died from leukemia (Boeree, 1998). During these years as a
teacher he wrote several books and was constantly conducting experiments and research, with his most famous endeavor being that which is known as operant conditioning. Operant Conditioning Operant
conditioning is one of the simplest, but most profound discoveries concerning human behavior and the behavior of animals as well. With operant conditioning, "The organism is in the process of
operating on the environment, which in ordinary terms means it is bouncing around it world, doing what it does" (Boeree, 1998). While bouncing around an animal or person will encounter
something that is a stimulis. In this approach the stimulus, if good, will incite the organism to do what it was doing before to get the same positive stimulus. The
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