Particulars of My Life

Skinner, B. F.

ISBN 10: 0224013149 / ISBN 13: 9780224013147

Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1976

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DJ will be clean and have at most light wear. Book will have been read but remains in excellent condition. Clean and tight binding. Cover may show slight wear. Contents will be clean and free from markings.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Particulars of My Life
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224013149
• ISBN 13: 9780224013147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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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 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.