B._F._Skinner

B. F. Skinner The Man On March 20, 1904, in a Pennsylvania railroad town known as Susquehanna, one of the world’s most famous Behaviorist’s was born. This man would go on to revolutionize the field of Behavioral Psychology with his experiments, inventions, and ideas. This man was named B. F. Skinner. Burrhus Frederick Skinner grew up in a rather “warm and stable home,” with a lawyer father, a housewife mother, and a younger brother (“The History of,” 2004). Throughout his childhood years, Burrhus loved to build things: cabins, steering carts, dams, and even a perpetual motion machine (which did not work). He spent much of his childhood building all sorts of contraptions (“The History of,” 2004). He spent all 12 grades of school in the same building, during which he displayed a knock for learning and a curiosity for life (Boeree, 1998). Even early in life, Skinner proved to be questioning of his surroundings and of knowledge taught in school. His eighth grade teacher, Ms. Mary Graves, told him that Shakespeare had written As You Like It, despite his opposing view that it had been written by a man skinner, reinforcement, schedule, behavior, time, rat, one, fixed, 2004, work, variable, university, times, ratio, psychology, life, interval, history, until, research, press, operant, man, harvard, experiments, even, boeree, 1998, written, study, shaping, schedules, number, new, much