Word: skinnerian
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...prototype machine, the size of a portable record player, the student pulls a lever to make a frame appear in the window. He ponders, writes his answer, pulls the lever again. The answer moves under glass (to prevent his changing it) and the correct answer appears. As the Skinnerian student clicks along, he concentrates fully on each item, advancing only when he is ready to answer. If he gets spring fever he may stop work, but at least he misses nothing, as he would in class. If he wants to soar ahead...
...cheap machines are inflexible and flexible machines are costly leads many a programer to holler go slow. Ken Komoski wants to wait until machines "can be completely flexible" through the addition of sound, motion-picture and automatic scoring devices." Others propose simply to let programed books do the job. Skinnerian books make turning a page to find an answer and a new frame the equivalent of switching frames on a machine. That permits easy cheating, but book programers argue that interesting programing eliminates the desire to peek ahead. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films' big programing division uses nothing but books, employing...