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From Quotes by B.F. Skinner
- 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…
- Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons…
- It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.
- 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…
- The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is,…
- Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get…
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