B. F. Skinner - Modelagem

What concerns me about Skinners work is, he based it on caged animals and the environment as he points out determines the response. I believe a caged environment compounds the affect in more ways than just mental. Physical effects on being caged, effect the mind as does the stress incurred by being locked up.

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I would sell myself to get the video of the TV program where Skinner and Rogers are together!

BTW have you read about the symposium wich they both atended?

Just about all of the modern criticism people have towards Watson and Skinner have far more to do with their dislike of his theory rather than an intellectual disagreement based on evidence.

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As if Pinker is doing anything besides cursing for giggles and regurgitating 50 years-old Chomsky...

These comments are funny, some of you think Skinner was some evil scientist that tried to reduce humans to animals, and i'll bet you haven't cracked open one book of his, yet you live your life under behavioral descriptions. You decide whether you like or dislike someone by analyzing their behavior. Skinner didn't have a soul nor do you, have you had your yearly "soul" check up at the doctor this year? to say someone is a good soul or a bad soul or has no soul is to reference their BEHAVIOR.

You're confusing psychology with philosophy. The existance of a soul is a philosophical problem, not a psychological one. It has nothing to do with behaviourism... Otherwise, explain how some people reach Kohlberg's sixth step (Gandhi) when they are "punished" instead or "rewarded" while doing so.

Skinner did not call internal processes imaginary; he called internal cause imaginary.

Big difference. Read "Science and Human Behavior" (1953) or "Verbal Behavior" (1957) and realize all internal processes are lawful as external observable behavior is lawful.

One can behave more based on intrinsic reinforcement as opposed to extrinsic reinforcement, but all intrinsic reinforcement is conditioned by past experience.

Skinner's right about morals & freedom. Wrong only on philosophy. Man is not a "caged ape," but rather able to condition more fully by thought then by action in environment. Still thought is controlled by external stimulus, but thought conditions more. Hence your free will is merely a sharpened discriminative control.
Ray, B. (1969) Selective attention: the effects of combining stimuli which control incompatible behavior. J. of the Exp. Analysis of Beh., 12, 539-550.