Skinner
Operant conditioning psychologist
Skinner as a surname is most associated with B.F.
Skinner, the American psychologist who developed behaviorist theories of conditioning.
A Skinner box is an apparatus for studying animal behavior through rewards and punishments.
Skinnerian describes approaches based on his work: Skinnerian reinforcement techniques. (Lowercase skinner is someone who skins animals.)
Adding support or encouragement
- operantProducing an effect
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
- stimulusWhat prompts a reaction
- responseAnswer to stimulus
extinction · shaping · punishment · schedule · contingency · baseline · generalization · discrimination
Pivoting bar for lifting
- pigeonStout urban bird
- ratRodent or informer
- laboratoryFacility for scientific investigation
- experimentSystematic investigation procedure
Prestigious Cambridge university
- behavioristAction-focused psychology adherent
- researcherOne who studies systematically
- professorSenior university teacher
- theoristDeveloper of explanatory systems
scientist · pioneer · academic · intellectual · lecturer · author · empiricist · determinist
reinforcement
Adding support or encouragement
- operantProducing an effect
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
- stimulusWhat prompts a reaction
response · extinction · shaping · punishment · schedule · contingency · baseline · generalization · discrimination · behaviorism
lever
Pivoting bar for lifting
- pigeonStout urban bird
- ratRodent or informer
- laboratoryFacility for scientific investigation
Harvard
Prestigious Cambridge university
- behavioristAction-focused psychology adherent
- researcherOne who studies systematically
- professorSenior university teacher
theorist · scientist · pioneer · academic · intellectual · lecturer · author · empiricist · determinist · inventor
- PsychologistsFreud, Jung, Piaget, Maslow, Pavlov
- psychologypsychology, psychologist, therapist, psychiatrist, clinical psychology
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- Conditioningconditioning, classical conditioning, operant, reinforcement, stimulus
- Pasta BrandsAmerican Beauty
- X-FilesMulder, Scully, FBI, aliens, UFOs
SkinnerNoam Chomsky
Influential linguist and activist
cognitivist · mentalist · nativist · Jean Piaget · cognitive psychologist
- skinned kneeAbraded joint from falling
- skinned overFormed protective surface layer
- skinned upAbraded the surface
- skinning knifeBlade for removing pelts
- B.F. SkinnerBehaviorist psychologist, conditioning researcher
- onion skinningViewing adjacent animation frames