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Behavior Quotes by B.F. Skinner
- Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose…
- A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid…
- Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It…
- That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
- The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a…
- In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible…
- I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of…
- To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
- A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
- Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make…
- An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
- The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process…
- It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
- Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences
- I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having…
- The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many…
- To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior…
- To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he…
- The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of…
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- Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we… — B.F. Skinner
- A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns… — B.F. Skinner
- That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior. — B.F. Skinner
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- I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that… — Anne Sweeney