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Professor Skinner makes an example of the rudimentary type machine in teaching a third or fourth grade pupil to spell the word manufacture. "The six frames are presented in order, and the pupil moves sliders to expose letters in the open squares...
...MANUFACTURE means to make or build. Chair factories manufacture chairs. Copy the word here...
...Part of the word is like part of the word factory. Both parts come from an old word meaning make or build...
...Part of the word is like part of the word manual. Both parts come from an old word for hand. Many things used to be made by hand...
...first frame the word to be learned appears along with a definition and an example. When he copies it correctly, the second frame appears. Now he has to be selective in his copying; He must see the common root of "fact" in "manufacture" and "factory." This helps him to acquire what Professor Skinner calls an "atomic verbal operant." In the third frame another root must be perceived. In four and five the student must put down letters without assistance. In frame six the student fills in the whole word to make the sentence which he knows from the first example...