Biography of B.F Skinner

the learning process and his belief in a planned society. He was also recognized as a

student of behavioral psychology. He was a leading supporter of program instruction.

B.F. Skinner was born on March 20, 1904 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. His

father was a rising young lawyer, and his mother a house wife. Skinner in school was this

type of boys that proved his teachers wrong. One time he went to the library and read

various books on Francis Bacon and saw the championing of the inductive method in

science against the appeal to authority was to serve him well later.

At age 24 was when he joined the Psychology Department of Harvard Univ

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