Burges Frederick Skinner

Burrhus Frederic Skinner (English: Burrhus Frederic Skinner, March 20, 1904 - August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, behavioral scientist, author, inventor, and sociologist. Skinner is the main representative of new behaviorism. He held the position of professor of psychology at Harvard University from 1958 to 1974. He introduced operational constraints and wrote the famous novel "Two Taoyuan Villages". Skinner invented the Skinner box and introduced operational constraints to explain this phenomenon. He reformed radical behaviorism and founded experimental analytical behaviorism. His work in human behavior reached its peak with the publication of "Verbal Behavior". In psychological research, Skinner first proposed and refined the concept of response rate as a dependent variable. He also invented cumulative recording as a tool for measuring response rates, which laid the foundation for his famous behavioral concept of reinforcement. In a June 2002 survey, Skinner was considered one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century.