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Who was BF Skinner?
A american psychologist
How did Skinners ideas affect schools
skinners ideas helped develop teaching methods.
What is a Skinner box?
A device used to study animal behavior.
What did Skinner believe about behavior ?
Skinner believed all behavior including thoughts and feelings is learned and shaped by the environment through rewards and punishments.
What is operant conditioning?
A way of learning where behavior is shaped by rewards, reinforcement, or punishments.
How did skinner use animals in his research?
He used them to understand how they learned new behavior
What is shaping?
Shaping is when you reward steps towards a bigger goal like giving a dog a treat for sitting then for lying down and so on.
What is an example of operant conditioning in real life?
A teacher giving praise, rewarding for good behavior.
What was Skinners book "walden two" about?
Skinner imagined a perfect community that used his ideas of behavior to make everything run smoothly.
Whats the difference between reinforcment and punishment to skinners theories
Reinforcement encourages a good behavior and punishment tries to stop a behavior by applying unpleasent consequences.