1. By:Jennifer Strawn BURRHUS FREDERIC (B.F.) SKINNER

2.  Operant Conditioning: a response is followed by a reinforcer that will result in an increase of the response, so the result will occur again  The action will result in a consequence (positive or negative) WHAT IS HIS THEORY?

3. SKINNER BOX This is a Skinner box that he used to research how a mouse would act if it got consequences for different actions.

4. PICTURE The mouse will be successful in the maze if it is rewarded with the cheese.

5.  Was born March 20, 1904 and died August 18, 1990  Attended Hamilton college and received a B.A. then later he went to Harvard and received his PhD  He was pointed in the direction of psychology after having an encounter with Watson about behaviorisms ALL ABOUT SKINNER…

6.  Neutral Operants  Responses from environment that aren’t positive or negative, so it won’t affect the probability of the response occuring 1

7.  Reinforcers  Responses that will increase the likelyhood of that result reoccuring. Can be positive or negative. 2

8.  punishers  Response that will decrease the probability of the same response reoccuring. It will weaken the behavior. 3

9.  Skinner is similar to Thorndike  Skinner was actually inspired to created the theory of reinforcers from Thorndike’s law of effect SIMILAR TO…

10.  www.simplypsychology.org/operant-conditioning.html  www.appsychology.com www.appsychology.com  www.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner www.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner  www.lifecircles- inc.com/Learningtheories/behaviorism/Skinner.html www.lifecircles- inc.com/Learningtheories/behaviorism/Skinner.html SOURCES