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B. F. Skinner Facts
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Burrhus Frederic Skinner commonly known as B. F. Skinner, was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974. Skinner considered free will an illusion and human action dependent on consequences of previous actions. If the consequences are bad, there is a high chance the action will not be repeated; if the consequences are good, the actions that led to it being repeated become more probable.Skinner called this the principle of reinforcement. (1904 – 1990) |
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Quotes by B. F. Skinner
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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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 punishment
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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