Particulars of My Life - Hardcover

Skinner, B.F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394400712 ISBN 13: 9780394400716

Publisher: Knopf, 1976

Synopsis

The controversial Harvard behaviorist details the people, places, and events of his first twenty-four years, recounting his formative experiences in Pennsylvania, Hamilton College, Greenwich Village, and Europe

About this title

About the Author:

B. F. Skinner, an American behavioral psychologist, is known for his many contributions to learning theory. His Behavior of Organisms (1938) reports his experiments with the study of reflexes. Walden Two (1949), a utopian novel, describes a planned community in which positive rather than negative reinforcers serve to maintain appropriate behavior; the novel stimulated the founding of some experimental communities. In Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971), Skinner attempted to show that only what he called a technology of behavior could save democracy from the many individual and social problems that plague it. (An early example of this technology is the so-called Skinner box for conditioning a human child.) A teacher at Harvard University from 1948 until his retirement, Skinner was for some the model of the objective scientist, for others the epitome of the heartless behaviorist who would turn people into automatons.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0394400712
• ISBN 13: 9780394400716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320