B. F. Skinner
Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1948 until his retirement in 1974.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Susquehanna Depot
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityHamilton College
- Awards
- 🏆 National Medal of Science🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Psychological Contributions to Education🏆 William James Fellow Award🏆 doctor honoris causa of Keiō University
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 William John Crozier
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Richard Herrnstein
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Trending topics shown first"A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment."
"I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is."
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
"Reprint of "The Minotaur of the Behaviorist Maze: Surviving Stanford's Learning House in the 1970s: Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 51, Number 3, July 2011. 266–272"
"The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man."
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1904
Born
Birth1990
Died
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