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Learning Principles: B. F. Skinner
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• Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990)
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Early life• 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.
• Skinner’s father was a lawyer• With one younger brother, he grew up in
a home environment he described as "warm and stable".
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Early life (Cont…)• Skinner went to Hamilton College, New York,
as he wanted to become a writer.• After getting his B.A. in English literature in
1926, Skinner attended Harvard University, where he later received a PhD in 1931.
• His literary skills disenchanted him, and was inspired by John B. Watson’s Behaviorism. He acquired a degree in psychology, which led to the development of his influential operant behaviorism.
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Books by B.F. Skinner• The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental
Analysis (1938)• Walden Two (1948)• Science and Human Behavior (1953)• Schedules of Reinforcement (1957)• Verbal Behavior (1957)• The Analysis of Behavior: A Program for Self
Instruction (with James Holland, 1961)• The Technology of Teaching (1968)• Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical
Analysis (1969)
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Books by B.F. Skinner (Cont…)• Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971)• About Behaviorism (1974)• Particulars of My Life: Part One of an Autobiography (1976)• Reflections on Behaviorism and Society (1978)• The Shaping of a Behaviorist: Part Two of an Autobiography
(1979)• Notebooks (with Robert Epstein, 1980)• Enjoy Old Age: A Program of Self-Management (with M.
Vaughan, 1983)• A Matter of Consequences: Part Three of an Autobiography
(1983)• Upon Further Reflection (1987)• Recent Issues in the Analysis of Behavior (1989)
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Operant Conditioning(Instrumental Conditioning)
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• Skinner is regarded as the father of Operant Conditioning
• Skinner believed that the best way to understand behavior is to look at the causes of an action and its consequences. He called this approach operant conditioning
• It was the dominant school in American psychology from the 1930s through the 1950s.
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B. F. Skinner’s influence
Skinner's theory of operant conditioning was based on thework of Thorndike (1905).• Law of Effect: rewarded behavior is likely to recur.
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• OperantAny activity behavior that operates upon the environment to generate consequences
• Operant ConditioningThe behavior is followed by consequence, and the nature of the consequence modifies the organisms tendency to repeat the behavior in the future
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B. F. Skinner’s Experiment
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Operant Conditioning
There are two types of consequences:positive (sometimes called pleasant)
Strengthens Behavior
negative (sometimes called unpleasant)
Weakens behavior
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Reinforcer Any event that STRENGTHENS the behavior it follows.There are 2 types of reinforcement1. Positive reinforcement2. Negative reinforcement
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Positive Reinforcement
Strengthens a response by presenting a pleasant stimulus after a response.
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Negative Reinforcement
• Strengthens a response by reducing or removing an aversive (unpleasant) stimulus.
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Punishment
An event that DECREASES the behavior that it followsThere are 2 types of punishment1. Positive Punishment2. Negative Punishment
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Positive Punishment
It involves the presentation of an unfavorable event or outcome in order to weaken the response it follows
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Negative PunishmentWhen a favorable event or outcome is removed after a behavior occurs, to decrease the following response
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Do rewards or punishment work?
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Reinforcement Schedules
• Stimuli are presented in the environment according to a schedule of which there are two basic categories:
ContinuousIntermittent
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Continuous Reinforcement• Continuous reinforcement refers to
reinforcement being administered to each instance of a response
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Intermittent reinforcement
Intermittent reinforcement lies between continuous reinforcement and extinction. It is the random or periodic administration of reinforcement for the desired response.
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TYPE MEANING OUTCOME
Fixed Ratio
Reinforcement depends on a definite number of responses
Activity slows after reinforcement and then picks up
Variable Ratio
Number of responses needed for reinforcement varies
Greatest activity of all schedules
Fixed Interval
Reinforcement depends on a fixed time
Activity increases as deadline nears
Variable Interval
Time between reinforcement varies
Steady activity results
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Give me a child and I’ll shape him
into anything
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If you're old, don’t try to
change yourself,
change the environment
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The real problem is not whether
machines think, but whether
men do
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