WorksContingencies over B. F. Skinner’s Discovery of Contingencies
(in press) European Journal of Behavior Analysis This article gives a chronological accounting of the many apparatuses and experiments that B. F. Skinner conducted from 1929-1931. The critical aspects of his apparatuses and recording methods, along with equipment breakdown, provided contingencies that permitted his discovery. They showed him that most of what we do is not a response to a stimulus as in Pavlovian conditioning, but that actions are controlled by their immediate consequences. It was this discovery that launched a new science initially called “the experimental analysis of behavior”, but now referred to as “behavior analysis” or “behaviorology”. Precision Teaching and Skinner’s Legacy
An analysis of the features of Precision Teaching taken directly from Skinner’s work, and a review of the other articles in the 2003 special issue on Precision Teaching of the European Journal of Behavior Analysis. |
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