EDUC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Applied Behavior Analysis, B. F. Skinner, Operant Conditioning Chamber
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B. f skinner is arguable the most famous psychologist in the 20th century. Has been long criticized as being cold and manipulative. believed in making the world a better place through technology. He trained pigeons to guide missils. came up with the (cid:1688)heir conditioner(cid:1689), to keep children in. Created a device for educational teaching, programmed instruction. He designed it because he didn"t trust teachers. Said that freedom is an elusion, and that we are a product of our reinforcement and punishment histories. When we say that someone died with dignity, it means that they learned that acting in a dignified way, she had better results. His theory of learning is called operational learning. Skinner bought into classical conditioning. believed that psychology can be explained by observable behaviour. He argued against the split between mind and body. Kinds of responses: elicited responses (respondent behaviours) are brought about in response to a stimulus.
