Reinforcement Today by B.F Skinner

Author:B.F Skinner [Skinner, B.F]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: www.all-about-psychology.com
Published: 2011-08-22T14:00:00+00:00

The technology resulting from the study of reinforcement has been extended into other fields of psychological inquiry. It has permitted Blough, Guttman, and others to convert pigeons into sensitive psychophysical observers. It has allowed pharmacologists and psychologists in pharmacological laboratories to construct behavioral base lines against which the effects of drugs on the so-called higher mental processes can be evaluated. It has enabled Lindsley and his co-workers to test the limits of the environmental control of psychotic subjects. And so on, in a long list. The technology is difficult. It cannot conveniently be learned from books; something resembling an apprenticeship is almost necessary. Possibly we can explain the fact that psychologists in general have only slowly accepted these new methods by noting that under such conditions knowledge is diffused slowly.

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