B. F. Skinner - SPYSEE

B. F. Skinner

Birth Date	March 20, 1904
Birthplace	Susquehanna, Pennsylvania

Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18 1990) was an influential American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform and poet. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974. He invented the operant conditioning chamber, innovated his own philosophy of science called Radical Behaviorism, and founded his own school of experimental research psychology – the experimental analysis of behavior. His analysis of human behavior culminated in his work Verbal Behavior, which has recently seen enormous increase in interest experimentally and in applied settings. He discovered and advanced the rate of response as a dependent variable in psychological research. He invented the cumulative recorder to measure rate of responding as part of his highly influential work on schedules of reinforcement. In a recent survey, Skinner was listed as the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. He was a prolific author, publishing 21 books and 180 articles.

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Susquehanna, Pennsylvania	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Psychologist	University Of Minnesota,Indiana University,Harvard University
Hamilton College,Harvard University	Reinforcement	Richard Dawkins	Lyndon B. Johnson
Jacques Loeb	Clark L. Hull	Operant Conditioning	Project Pigeon