Word: skinner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ranging from elementary spelling to college statistics that are ready for sale by Grolier for $5 to $15 each. Programing is an outgrowth of psychological experiments with animals, which can be taught complicated tricks on a one-step-at-a-time basis if frequently rewarded. Harvard Psychologist B. Frederic Skinner, 56, is the leader in adapting animal conditioning techniques to teaching humans; most machine programing follows his basic research experiments on Harvard and Radcliffe students. Programing techniques can also be applied to study courses without machines...
...reducing repetition, having more people teach, and using modern methods of education and simplified material, she said, "What we take eight grades to teach our children we could teach them in two." Questioned specifically about school television and Professor B. F. Skinner's teaching machines, she said that television is excellent when it is used imaginatively, but that we cannot yet judge teaching machines because we do not know enough about them...
Slack's "Streetcorner Research" program hired its subjects and then paid them for each visit on arrival at the laboratory--no matter how late they might be for the appointment. This follows the theory of "immediate reinforcement" developed by B.F. Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology. After a few sessions the youths began attending regularly and the researchers had passed the first barrier: they had overcome to a degree the "no-work ethic" of the group and instilled a congnizance of time. The "identification" resulting from continued association could then take place. The boys became gradually accustomed to regular, though...
Robert G. Skinner designed the sets, no easy chore when the play, set in the Kowalskis' two-room apartment, requires a claustrophobic atmosphere, while the stage is open to the audience on three sides. The sets were properly dingy, but never managed to show up properly the incongruity between their dinginess and the pseudo-gentility of Blanche's efforts at redecoration. Ruth Branad's costumes were splendid, even down to Stanley's bright red pajamas...
Sidney Bennett's tricky lighting that works, and a good set by Robert G. Skinner are other elements of a production that does nothing to obscure either the merits or the deficiencies of a play that has qualities of both...