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How Did B F Skinner Influence Behavior
Burrhus Frederic Skinner Burrhus Fredric Skinner or to many just known as B.F Skinner is to date one of the most

motivational and influential phycologists of America.

Born March 20th 1904 in Susquehanna, PA. Early in his life he became an atheist due to

his grandmothers teaching of hell and his younger brothers passing because of a brain aneurysm. Throughout his young years Skinner developed a like ship to English Literature and Romance

Languages, though soon after entering college and a series of misfortunate events discovered in

fact this was not his true calling. Shortly after his graduation and attending Middlebury School of

English following his first book Digest of Decisions of the Anthracite Board of Conciliation

about a coal strike in 1904, did
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Eventually he

moved on to better things or rather animals and began using pigeons and eventually substituted

the rats for these and future testing. Two other established behavioral examples are punishers and

neutral operants. Punishments are considered the opposite of reinforcement as to it involves

removing something in order to avoid negative behavior for instance lowering or taking away

completely a kids allowance due to low grades or misbehavior. Skinners term was responses

from the environment that decreases the like hood of behavior being repeated, punishment

weakens behavior. Neutral operants is exactly that, responses from the environment that neither

make behavior tendencies increase or decrease. It is to say that Skinners most significant

experiments were behavioral reinforcements, with this all being what makes Skinners

“Operational Conditioning” process which entails reactions to familiar stimulus.

During Word War II Skinner managed to get involved with the military. He had the

chance to further advance on his scientific studies and through here was funded on a

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