B. F. Skinner
Burrhus Frederic Skinner, psychologist and behaviorist, was born in Susquhanna, Pennsylvania in 1904 to William Skinner and Grace Burrhus. His father was a lawywer and his mother was a naturally bright woman. Skinner had only one sibling; his brother died at the age of sixteen. Skinner lived most of his life in Susquhanna. He did not leave the house he was born in until he left to go to college. He was raised very close to his grandparents, who had a major impact on his early life. He was also close to his parents. He and his mother and father all graduated from the same high school. This was the same school that he had attended for all twelve years of his education.
Skinner attended Hamilton College at the reccomadation of a family friend. He took many different types of courses before deciding to major in English and minor in Romance Languages. Skinner felt that he did not fit in at college. He disliked the fraterninty that he had joined and he did not understand why the college required the courses that it did. He felt that he was made to take too much physical education and not enough emphasis was place on actual academics. The summer before his senior year he attended the Middlebury School of English at Breadloaf, Vermont. During this summer he had lunch with Robert Frost. Frost asked to see his work and gave Skinner a lot of enfouragemant.
This led him to the decision to become a writer.
Skinner's father was not happy with this decision. He has hoped that his son would become a lawywer, like himself. His father eventually agreed to his decision, and Skinner moved back home to start his new career. He built himself an office in his parents' house where he could write. He was to try to be a writer ...
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...ology of literature. She listened to him and gave him advice on his lectures. In the next ten years, he wrote three books all having to do with the psychology of literature. Yvonne and Skinner had two daughters, Julie and Deborah.
It was the birth of their second child taht inspired one of Skinner's inventions. He invented the ""baby box"" to ease the burdens of chilcare for his wife. The box is still used today, but is not so widespread because changes in childacare are hard to make. Another of his most famous endeavors was ""project pigion."" This was an experiment designed to teach pigions to guide missles in the 1930's.
B. F. Skinner died in 1990. He is stilled looked upon today as one of the most influential behaviorailists. His work is still studied and revered for it's genius. Skinner was an independent thinker who studied everyone, including himself.
When he was fifteen years old his mother died from appendicitis. From fifteen years of age to his college years he lived in an all-white neighborhood. From 1914-1917, he shifted from many colleges and academic courses of study as well as he changed his cultural identity growing up. He studied physical education, agriculture, and literature at a total of six colleges and universities from Wisconsin to New York. Although he never completed a degree, his educational pursuits laid the foundation for his writing career. He had the knowledge of philosophy and psychology. He attempted to write when he was a youth, but he made a choice to pursue a literary career in 1919. After he published Cane he became part of New York literary circles. He objected both rivalries that prevailed in the fraternity of writers and to attempts to promote him as a black writer (Clay...
B.F. Skinner was a empiricist in my opinion he believed that only basically after experience one can formulate a theory. Another reason why I believe Skinner was a empiricist do to his book published in 1957 "Verbal Behavior. Which, had set the way for behaviorism which means basically it's like a child born with a blank slate feeling them up with knowledge that is obtained through experience so in actuality this is related to empiricist. Empiricist is a "Philosophy. the doctrine that all knowledge isderived from sense experience." (Dictionary.com) Skinner was already relating to empiricist when he created this book in 1957 and making it clear what is view on life was. Furthermore Skinner is know for his famous quote "Education is what survives
Burrhus Frederic (B.F.) Skinner was born on March 20, 1904, and raised in the small town of Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. As a child, Skinner established an interest in building and inventing things. As he attended Hamilton College, B.F. Skinner developed a great passion for writing, attempting to become a writer. He did not succeed so therefore, inspired by the writings of Watson and Pavlov, two years later, Skinner decided to attend Harvard University to study psychology.
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