B. F. Skinner

Distinguished experimental psychologists who followed the Skinnerian behavioral framework—after Professor B. F. Skinner from Harvard—claimed that our thoughts and feelings were either illusions or immaterial to how humans functioned.

The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

Distinguished experimental psychologists who followed the Skinnerian behavioral framework—after Professor B. F. Skinner from Harvard—claimed that our thoughts and feelings were either illusions or immaterial to how humans functioned.

The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

Distinguished experimental psychologists who followed the Skinnerian behavioral framework—after Professor B. F. Skinner from Harvard—claimed that our thoughts and feelings were either illusions or immaterial to how humans functioned.

The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

Distinguished experimental psychologists who followed the Skinnerian behavioral framework—after Professor B. F. Skinner from Harvard—claimed that our thoughts and feelings were either illusions or immaterial to how humans functioned.

The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

The famous behaviorist B. F. Skinner discovered that when training animals, regular rewards gradually lose their effectiveness over time.

30 Days to a Well-Mannered Dog Tamar Geller 2010

The famous behaviorist B. F. Skinner discovered that when training animals, regular rewards gradually lose their effectiveness over time.

30 Days to a Well-Mannered Dog Tamar Geller 2010

The famous behaviorist B. F. Skinner discovered that when training animals, regular rewards gradually lose their effectiveness over time.

30 Days to a Well-Mannered Dog Tamar Geller 2010

Scott was the most significant twentieth-century researcher on dog behavior and deserves to be as well known to the public as Sigmund Freud and B. F. Skinner.

Born to Bark Stanley Coren 2010

B. F. Skinner was formalizing his discoveries about the process of learning, David Hubel and Torston Wiesel, who would later win the Nobel Prize, were uncovering the neurological basis for how the brain puts together visual images, while another Nobel Prize winner, George von Békésy, was uncovering the mechanisms by which we interpret the sounds that we hear.

Born to Bark Stanley Coren 2010

Hodgman: And that the show was doing really, really well when it was talking about B. F. Skinner and all that sort of thing.

Q&A;: John Hodgman on Perfecting the Illusion of Expertise Adam Rogers 2008