A follower of the theories or methods of B. F. Skinner

Usage examples of skinnerian.

I began to think about the implications of this experiment I realized that, straightforward enough though the effect may be, it clearly does not conform to any simple associationist theory derived by an extension of pavlovian or skinnerian conditioning theory, whose essence is the immediate linking in time of stimulus and response.

Whereas in pavlovian - or, as it became known, classical - conditioning the experimental animals were the passive recipients of the unconditioned and conditioning stimuli which they had to learn to pair, the skinnerian approach was to put the animals into a situation where they had to do something positive, to act on their environment - to emit an operant.

There was a chicken coop where two dozen hens pecked at the bars like Skinnerian pigeons, a goat at the end of a long leash eating trash, hamsters treading endlessly on plastic wheels and a basset hound who bayed half-heartedly at the darkening sky.

The article was well written, the author well versed on the subject, and I agree with much of what was said regarding Skinnerian behaviorism.

Though the government continued to attempt to use these rewards as positive reinforcements to maintain public support for the war, these Skinnerian methods proved absolutely futile in the face of alteration of the sensorium.

American Skinnerian Behaviorist School and the European Pavlovian School were assigned the responsibility, by the military caste, of predicting and controlling human behavior for purposes of .

I had been practicing the technique so consistently for the last three weeks that the word had gone out, and now only the most Skinnerian newstapers even troubled to stick microphones in my face.

Much of the stuff available in stores today is neither strictly utilitarian nor scarce: but it is heavily advertised, and the behaviorists who are manipulating the American consumer have thrown classic economic theory into a Skinnerian box.