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BF Skinner
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On August 10, 1990 Burrhus Frederick Skinner received a citation for lifetime contribution to psychology from the American Psychological Association. It reads inpart: “With great sensitivity to the human condition combined with rigorous standards and a broad outlook, you laid the foundation for inn ....
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....and Forisha say that, “The stimuli that happen to act as reinforcers fall into two classes, positive and negative reinforces. A positive reinforcer is a stimulus which when presented, acts to strengthen the behavior it follows...there are negative reinforcers that may be used to condition operant behavior. Some stimuli by their nature strengthen responses through their removal.” (Milhollan and Forisha 52) Skinner illustrates this in his book “About Behaviorism” by saying, “When a bit of behavio.... |
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