Word: skinner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Israel said he hopes to pattern the community on Skinner's concept of "behavioral modification through positive re-inforcement"--that is, a system of rewards for desirable behavior. The group will develop its own housing, and will offer members cooperative cooking, child care and other services...
...attempt to "make a technology out of the production of the good life," a group of area residents will establish an experimental community in September, based on Walden II by B.F. Skinner '11, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology...
...Skinner says this "instant correction," along with the programming of the book that lets each student move at his own speed, will help grade-school children learn how to write "much faster" than they...
...been interested in programmed instruction for a long time," Skinner said, and in the last fifteen years he has developed machines to teach arithmetic and spelling. "But I found there was just no way to teach writing with a machine," he said, "and that's why I started on these books...
When he joined the Harvard faculty in 1948, Skinner introduced his new teaching ideas in his course, Nat Sci 114. For twelve years he taught the course--on "Human Behavior," in which students learned much of the material from machines in Sever Hall's self-instruction room. When Skinner retired from undergraduate teaching in 1962, the course was no longer given...