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 what was B. F. Skinner famous for? - by randomness_queen@hotmail.co.uk
       
B. F. Skinner Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1903-1990) was an American psychologist, a radical behaviourist who rejects mental concepts, seeing the organism as a "black box" where internal processes are not important in predicting behaviour.

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He stressed that behaviour is shaped and maintained by its consequences.

His radical approach rejected almost all previous psychology; his text Science and Human Behaviour in 1953 contains no references and no bibliography.

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B. F. Skinner was an American psychologist, author, inventor and social philosopher.

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