Burrhus Frederic Skinner citations

Burrhus Frederic Skinner est un psychologue et un penseur américain. Penseur influent du behaviorisme , il a été fortement influencé par les travaux d'Ivan Pavlov et ceux du premier comportementaliste John Watson. Il a été élu par ses pairs comme l'un des psychologues les plus importants du XXe siècle et aussi comme l'un des scientifiques les plus influents de ce siècle.

✵ 20. mars 1904 – 18. août 1990  •  Autres noms ಬಿ.ಎಫ‍್.ಸ್ಕಿನ್ನರ್
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Burrhus Frederic Skinner Citations

Burrhus Frederic Skinner: Citations en anglais

“Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.”

B.F. Skinner

Freedom and the control of men (1955/1956) American Scholar, 25 (1), 47-65.

“I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.”

B.F. Skinner

As quoted in "Unpacking the Skinner Box : Revisiting B. F. Skinner through a Postformal Lens" by Dana Salter in The Praeger Handbook of Education and Psychology Vol. 4 (2008) edited by Joe L. Kincheloe and Raymond A. Horn, Ch. 99, p. 872.

“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”

B.F. Skinner

As quoted in B. F. Skinner : The Man and His Ideas (1968) by Richard Isadore Evans, p. 73.
Contexte: We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

“The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.”

B.F. Skinner

Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis (1969).
Source: Contingencies Of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis

“It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious.”

B.F. Skinner

"Free and Happy Student" in The Phi Delta Kappan (September 1973); later published in Reflections on Behaviorism and Society (1978).
Contexte: Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived", but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious.
It is a difficult assignment. The conditions the teacher arranges must be powerful enough to compete with those under which the student tends to behave in distracting ways.

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

B.F. Skinner

"New methods and new aims in teaching", in New Scientist, 22(392) (21 May 1964), pp.483-4.

“I do not admire myself as a person. My successes do not override my shortcomings.”

B.F. Skinner

Journal of Humanistic Psychology Spring 1991 vol. 31 no. 2 112-113

“It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.”

B.F. Skinner

As quoted in Performance-based Assessment for Middle and High School Physical Education (2002) by Jacalyn Lea Lund and Mary Fortman Kirk, p. 165.

“The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.”

B.F. Skinner

As quoted in Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much (1993) by Jonathon Lazear and Wendy Lazear, p. 5.

“The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called "conditioning."”

B.F. Skinner

In operant conditioning we "strengthen" an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.
Science and Human Behavior (1953)

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