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Way Quotes by 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 how to avoid…
- Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to…
- To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
- Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
- I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having…
- Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power…
- 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…
- 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,…
- The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
- Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible,…
- 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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