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On August 10, 1990 Burrhus Frederick Skinner received a citation for lifetime contribution to psychology from the American Psychological Association. It reads inpart: “With great sensitivity to the human condition combined with rigorous standards and a broad out ....

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.... himself to be a radical behaviorist and focused much of his research on the learning process. Through his research Skinner’s main contribution to the field of education would be his behavioral work with the theory of operant conditioning. Skinner himself says that, “When I am asked what I regard as my most important contribution, I always say the original experimental analysis of operant behavior and its subsequent extension to more complex cases.” (Bigge, Shermis. 95) According to Skinner operant conditioning, like all psychological processes, is a product of natural selection and deals with stimuli or consequences that act as reinforcers to b ....