Tag: B. F. Skinner
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Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
B. F. Skinner
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
B. F. Skinner
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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 behavior that benefits everyone.
B. F. Skinner
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Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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.
B. F. Skinner
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement – strengthen the church and so on – and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
B. F. Skinner
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Reinforcement is being right.
B. F. Skinner
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
B. F. Skinner
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future – journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists – tend not to be powerful.
B. F. Skinner
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
B. F. Skinner