Burrhus Frederic Skinner the Theorist
Behaviorism is the branch of psychology associated today with numerous psychologists but one of the most prominent behavioral psychologists of all time, B.F. Skinner really taught people that any behavior is usually immediately affected by its consequences. I having a young child I have seen Skinners theories work in many different facets during my short stint of being a parent. Skinner is a theorist who made his reputation by studying how an individual's behavior might change by responding to his/her environment. The great Skinner wrote "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten",(Skinner, 1964) thus basically meaning that most over and over again behaviors we as people have learned and made habits are from the trials and consequences we suffered through to understand them.
Behaviorism is a different breed of psychology to study; Skinner after logging long hours at Harvard and the University of Minnesota often......
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