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A Matter defer to Consequences: Part Three characteristic an Autobiography
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A Matter of Consequences: Part Three of an Autobiography
"Here is B. F. Skinner--in the third and final volume of his autobiography--writing about himself during the past thirty years: years in which the passionate debate over his work raged, and which he himself has evolved into one of the major controversial figures of our time. The first two volumes of Dr. Skinner's autobiography (Particulars of My Life and The Shaping of a Behaviorist) revealed his small-town boyhood and youth, mapped out the development and implementation of his psychological theories, his experimental studies, and his writing, bringing us up to the time of the publication of Walden Two, perhaps the most successful modern utopian novel. In the present volume, he applies himself to a further explanation of his methods and philosophy, and delineates the ways in which his ideas have changed, grown, and been reinforced. "I think I am beginning to see the scope of behavioral--or behavioristic--analysis," he wrote in 1972. "It does talk about the important things; it does point to conditions which can be changed; it does show what is wrong with other ways of talking about things." Dr. Skinner reiterates his belief in the benefits of the "Skinner Box" (a name maliciously coined by its critics--its correct n
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A Matter of Consequences (B.F. Skinner's Autobiography, Pt 3) - Softcover
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B. F. Skinner, an American behavioral psychologist, is known for his many contributions to learning theory. His Behavior of Organisms (1938) reports his experiments with the study of reflexes. Walden Two (1949), a utopian novel, describes a planned community in which positive rather than negative reinforcers serve to maintain appropriate behavior; the novel stimulated the founding of some experimental communities. In Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971), Skinner attempted to show that only what he called a technology of behavior could save democracy from the many individual and social problems that plague it. (An early example of this technology is the so-called Skinner box for conditioning a human child.) A teacher at Harvard University from 1948 until his retirement, Skinner was for some the model of the objective scientist, for others the epitome of the heartless behaviorist who would turn people into automatons.