Behavioral Psychology and BF Skinner

Behavioral theory created by B.F. Skinner an individual’s response to daily events changes are a response to the stimuli that occurs in the environment. He labeled this operant behavior and believed that causation is stimulation. More importantly characteristics of this behavior are the control of implications that may occur. I agree with the assumption that an individual’s response to stimulus that occurs in the environment and the consequences that occur. The way a person reacts to everyday occurrences can be both negative and positive.

Chapter 1 of Opening Skinners Box portrays the life and experiments of one B.F. Skinner. The way this one man researched and spent so many years of his life dedicated to his findings is not only crazy and committed, but encouraging, motivational, and stimulating. Skinner was a neo-behaviorist well-known and notorious for his findings about the behavior animals have when using positive reinforcement and what you can teach them to do with these findings.

The theory of Behaviorism is a topic which has been instilled in classrooms all across the world possibly without teachers even noticing. B.F. Skinner is the man who came up with this theory as well as the ways in which to apply it in the classroom. The main idea of this theory is that all human behaviors are learned, and thus they can be unlearned and replaced by new behaviors. This theory is vitally important in the education world because it helps teachers to better instruct their students with the help of positive and negative punishment and positive and negative reinforcement.

B.F. Skinner, born on March 20th 1904, was an American behavioural psychologist who carried who carried out many experiments based on how behaviour is shaped and that all humans will regurgitate the things they enjoy doing and avoid those they dislike. He understood that creative people will be rewarded positively in order for that person to take an interest in that particular activity and develop further. He based his theories on self-observation,

One of the most prominent and influential psychologists of the twentieth century, B.F. Skinner was known as a behavioral psychologist, philosopher of science, and an educational innovator. Throughout his life he did experimental work with animals to discover how patterns of behavior are learned. His initial work was primarily conducted with animals, and later in life he started to work with humans and apply his learning from his pigeon studies to human behavior. He focused on the individual and wrote about how to restructure social systems to improve the quality of life.

Just as Freud is known as the father of Psychoanalysis, B.F. Skinner is often referred to ask the “the father of operant conditioning.” B.F. Skinner is also known for major contributions to the field of psychology (About B.F. Skinner, Sept, 2012). Skinner was a prolific author, publishing nearly 200 articles and more than 20 books. Skinner was most known for his work in behavior psychology. Behavioral psychology is the psychological practice that focuses on learning new behaviors and how to modify our existing behavior and how that takes place (About B.F. Skinner, Sept, 2012). One of his major contributions was his theory of operant conditioning. Operant conditioning means roughly, the changing of behavior by the use of reinforcement, either positive or negative, and which these reinforcements are given after the desired response (About B.F. Skinner, Sept, 2012). Skinner identified three types of responses or operant that can follow behavior.

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Illegal drug use may be explained by a Skinnerian behaviorist as a maladaptive response that is significantly reinforced more than adaptive responses. For example, a Skinnerian behaviorist might say, a person who uses illegal drugs is constantly pressured by their peers to use illegal drugs and is not enough in contact with those who would reinforce non-drug use. As a result, illegal drug use becomes more reinforced than not.

According to Gewirtz and Peláez-Nogueras (1992), “B. F. Skinner contributed a great deal to advancing an understanding of basic psychological processes and to the applications of science-based interventions to problems of individual and social importance.” He contributed to “human and nonhuman behavior, including human behavioral development, and to various segments of the life span, including human infancy” (p. 1411). One of Skinner's greatest scientific discoveries was “single reinforcement” which became sufficient for “operant conditioning, the role of extinction in the discovery of intermittent schedules, the development of the method of shaping by successive approximation, and Skinner's break with and rejection of stimulus-response

The person who I think had the most significant impact on modern psychology and is the most consistent with my personal views is B.F. Skinner. B.F. Skinner had the most significant impact on modern psychology I think because according to conversation with B.F. Skinner (1973) “He seeks the explanations to human behavior not in the mind within but outside in those conditions in the environment that collectively determine behavior” (p. 1). Skinner believes that people should feel free and not feel controlled by their behaviors. He believes in the maximum amount of positive reinforcement when it comes to behavior.

B.F. Skinner was a very outspoken representative for Behaviorism and is considered the father of Behavioral therapy. Skinner pioneered radical behaviorism which looks at the properties of the surroundings of one’s world to determine why deviant behaviors exist. Skinner was also a determinist he did not believe in free choice even though Skinner admitted feelings and thoughts exist but did not believe they are the cause of our actions he believed that cause and effect were objective and observable conditions he believed mind and motive had been given too much

Behaviour shaping was developed by Skinner . This technique focuses on any responses that move in the direction of the behaviour being desired , being reinforced.

Burrhus Frederic Skinner is one of the most influential psychologists to study and practice, the ideology of Behaviorism. The concept behind behaviorism is to understand the thought that emphasizes the importance of experience in governing behavior while, the key role of behaviorism was to the determine the laws that govern learning (Claypoole, 2016). Skinner was born on March 20, 1904 and died on August 18, 1990 due to Leukemia.

     After high school Skinner went to Hamilton College where he majored in English Literature and minored in Romance Languages. Skinner’s freshman year did not turn out to be what he expected. He felt that the college was pushing him around with unnecessary requirements, such as daily chapel and physical education. Skinner’s college life became better as the years went on. He was very comfortable with college life by his senior year. He and a friend once printed up a poster that said that Charles Chaplin was

Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born on March 20, 1904 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and a social philosopher. Skinner is known for his discovery of the theory of operant conditioning (Wikipedia). Skinner was a graduate from Harvard University. Although he understood the importance of classical conditioning, he noted that, “principles of classical conditioning account for only a small portion of learned behaviors” (Woolfolk 250). Skinner expressed that through operant conditioning, behavior is strengthened or weakened by antecedents or consequences. Both theorists’ work have a major influence on learning/behavioral concepts.