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B.F. Skinner
B. F. Skinner was born on March 20, 1904 in Susquehanna, a small railroad town in the hills of Pennsylvania just below Binghamton, New York. ...
At the age of 24 Skinner enrolled in the Psychology Department of Harvard University. Still rebellious and impatient with what he considered unintelligent ideas, Skinner found a mentor equally caustic and hard driving. ... With his enthusiasm and talent for building new equipment, Skinner constructed apparatus after apparatus as his rats behavior suggested changes. ... Skinner invented the cumulative recorder, a mechanical device that recorded every response as an upward movement of a horizontally moving line. ... Skinner discovered that the rate with which the rat pressed the bar depended not on any preceding stimulus (as Watson and Pavlov had insisted), but on what followed the bar presses. ... Skinner named it operant behavior. ... Because of a fellowship, Skinner was able to spend his next five years investigating not only the effect of following consequences and the schedules on which they were delivered, but also how prior stimuli gained control over behavior-consequence relationships with which they were paired. ...
In 1936, Skinner married at the age of 32 to Yvonne Blue and moved to Minnesota. This is where Skinner had his first teaching job. ... Seeing this, Skinner felt that he could do something that would contribute to the war effort. Skinner sought funding for a secret project that trained pigeons to guide the missiles to its intended target.
Approximate Word count = 1208
Approximate Pages = 4.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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