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The Life and Works of Psychologist B.F. Skinner

independent thinker as well as an individual who was perhaps rebellious against the "norm." One author notes that this became quit...

Behavorism Contributions of B.F. Skinner

In four pages the behavioral sciences contributions of psychologist B.F. Skinner are discussed with the emphasis upon naturalistic...

Teh Beginning of Operant Conditioning

Skinner's legacy is reinforcement. This theory has been applied in learning settings, such as schools, and also in counseling and ...

Everyday Life Examples of Conditioning Theory

B.F. Skinner's theories are examined in this conditioning theory discussion that consists of eight pages with everyday life exampl...

Life and Work of B.F. Skinner

conditioning is one of the simplest, but most profound discoveries concerning human behavior and the behavior of animals as well. ...

Performance of Employees and Motivation

attempting to induce others to accept certain goals and/or standards (Accel-Team.com, 2004). There are important caveats managers...

Evaluating When Children Can Testify

Everyone is challenged with ethical issues, some more often than others. This essay discusses forensic psychologists and possible ...

Psychological Concepts: Functionalism and Skinner

Part 2. What theoretical concepts are attributed to B. F. Skinner? Which one of these concepts had the greatest effect on the fiel...

Skinner Theory

changed Pavlovs original classical conditioning proposal to operant conditioning. Skinners model includes how the environment infl...

Substance Abuse Treatment Privacy

Confidentiality and privacy are demanded for medical and mental health professionals. Psychologists and therapists live by the Eth...

The Client-Centered Therapy Theories of Carl Rogers

the Teachers College was the international center for the "dissemination of Deweys educational philosophy" (Gordon, Feb 1997, p. 7...

Life and Career of Oliver Wendell Holmes

In five pages this paper discusses the connection between Oliver Wendell Holmes' life and works....

Tragic Masterpiece Antigone by Sophocles

In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....

What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, and Life Expectations

In five pages these 2 works by physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman are examined in terms of the author's inspirationa...

W.E.B. DuBois

that time Great Barrington had perhaps 25, but not more than 50, Black people out of a population of about 5,000" (Hynes, 2007). T...

Life and Works of Charles Babbage

emphasis on manufacture and engineering in that region which initiated his own interest in the subjects....

Christo: Life and Works

Galerie Schmela, D?sseldorf" (The-Artists.org., 2007). Then in 1964 he moved to New York where he began what was called his "store...

Michelangelo: His Life and Works

wanted to be something other than a banker or a merchant as his father desired (Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat: A Biography, ...

Billy Collins

many different ways. For example, one author illustrates how, "You can read a Billy Collins poem to someone who hates poetry and t...

Malcolm X

was no realistic goal for a nigger, Malcolm lost interest in school" and thus dropped out of school (Estate of Malcolm X, 2008). I...

Behavior Modification & Stopping Procrastination

with strategies adopted from cognitive therapy, are applied to a variety of situations and needs, such as schools and classroom be...

Work Life Balance Strategies and the Impact on Women Employees

been a change in the home commiserate with the workplace; men have not been taking on a greater care and house work to share the w...

Trade Dispute between Expando and Flexo Wristwatch Band Manufacturers

business operating within its borders. Flexo has asked its own State B customs service to impose a stiff import tax on Expa...

Human Behavior: Conditioned Responses

Utilizing rats and pigeons, Skinner (1965) set out to prove the whole of human behavior is based upon the fundamental concept of o...

What Should This Psychologist Do

The scenario for this discussion is: a client's attorney has called and asks for the client's diagnosis and prognosis because the ...

Identifying Ethical Issues

Psychologists must live by the APA Ethical Principles and Code of Conduct. They will be sanctioned if they violate these principle...

An Argument Against Psychologist Licensure

If psychologists have board certification, do they really need to have a license on top of that? This essay comments on how licens...

Issues in Psychology Education

This research paper pertains to five separate topics, which are: heredity vs. environment, in regards to development; policy for i...

Operant Conditioning

isnt. It means that an aversive situation is taken away, which reinforces the person to perform whatever act is necessary (Boeree,...

The Concept of Conditioning

are two types of operant conditioning that is based on the belief that behaviors can be shaped by the expectation of consequences ...