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B.F. Skinner

1. BurrusFrederic SkinnerProponent of Operant Conditioning

2. Born March 20, 1904 – Died August 18, 1990 of leukemiaFrom a small Pennsylvania town of Susquehanna His father was a lawyerHis mother was a housewifeReceived his BA in English from Hamilton College in upstate New YorkSkinner started his career as an English major, writing poems and short stories. After this...Skinner attended Harvard where he got his masters in psychology (1930) and his doctorate (1931), and stayed there to do research until 1936. Studied in the field of psychology (Behaviours) B.F. Skinner

3. Skinner married Yvonne Blue in 1936 and they had their first child, Julie, in 1938. In 1944, during World War II, Skinner worked on the “Project Pigeon” which trained pigeons to direct bombs by pecking at a target.In 1943, when Yvonne was pregnant for the second time, Skinner designed the “baby tender,” a crib that was designed to be safer than a normal crib.B.F. Skinner

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5. The illustration shows how a mouse can learn to manoeuvre through a maze. the mouse is rewarded wi

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B.F. Skinner

By: Michelle Lezama B.F. Skinner

Introduction • BurrhusFredericSkinnerwasan American psychologist, inventor, author and poet. • He developedthesystem of operantconditioning and developedhisownscientificphilosophyknown as Radical Behaviorism.

EarlyLife • Skinner was born on March 20, 1904 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. • His father was a rising young lawyer, his mother a housewife. • His brother died at the age of 16 from a cerebral aneurysm. • During his boyhood, Skinner had a strong passion for building things. • Among his first projects were a cart with steering that worked backwards (by mistake) and a perpetual motion machine (the latter did not work). PerpetualMotion Machine

EarlyLife • Skinner attended Hamilton College in New York and received his BA in English. • He didn’t fit in very well, not enjoying the fraternity parties or the football games. • In addition, he was an atheist in a school that required daily chapel attendance.

FirstInfluences • After graduation, he spent a year at his parents' home in Scranton, attempting to become a

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B.F. SKINNER - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Title: B.F. SKINNER

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B.F. SKINNER
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Behaviourism Key Theorists
Watson
Skinner
Pavlov
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WHAT IS BEHAVIOURISM?

The theory of behaviourism is based around the
idea that all behaviours are acquired through
conditioning which occurs during interaction
within the surrounding environment.
Believe it is unnecessary to speculate about the
internal mental processes when explaining
behaviour.
Based of the beliefs that behaviours can be
measured, trained and changed.
Regard all behaviour as a response to a stimulus.
Assumes all learners are passive, responding to
the environment

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KEY IDEAS

Deterministic- The way you act is determined by
external stimuli provided by the culture in which
you live (operant conditioning. What we do is
determined by the environment we are in
Observable- over time the individual develops a
behavioural repertoire (Steinberg,1980) that
can but used to predict behaviour
Controllable- desirable behaviours can be brought
about by incentives, undesirable behaviours can
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