PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: B. F. Skinner, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Programmed Learning
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Social psychologists have focused on how social influences can condition an individual to think, behave and view the world in different ways. B. f skinner was a behavioural psychologists, who explored the diverse elements of such conditioning. Skinner demonstrated that an organism"s behavior can be controlled by utilizing its current stimulus situation and its history of reinforcement. Skinner showed the impacts of operant conditioning and the concept of the law of effect. His invention famously dubbed the skinner box , demonstrated the results of programmed learning, and how certain behaviours can be reinforced over time. His popular quote, give me a child, and i can turn them into anything, shows his confidence in creating any type of individual through conditioning. It also displays how a person"s family holds the power to influence their children and transform the core elements of who they are. Hence, the family can be considered a type of skinner box.
