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Then there was his teaching machine. This was another kind of box, a bit like a primitive computer, which showed questions and rewarded you if you got the right answer. So it would be easy to have the impression that Skinner thought we were just machines in a world of machines. The truth, as is almost always the case, is more complicated. He was born in d. When he was young he wanted to be a creative writer but abandoned this after reading Watson. Inspired by Watson he did graduate research at Harvard and would teach at Harvard for most of his life.
Skinner was always interested in changing society, and so he was always willing to engage with the public. He really became famous, however, only in the s and s—so well into, or past, his middle age. At least two of his books have had some impact on popular culture. It was not very successful at the time, but in the s people became interested in social experimentation and the book became more popular.
This was published in Skinner did a lot of publicity for the book, and his unique personal characteristics combined with his controversial ideas probably helped the book become a bestseller. In that book a group of teenagers are trapped in what is essentially a giant Skinner box and are experimented on by what seems to be an evil B. People tend to associate Skinner with pigeons, and he did do an enormous amount of research with rats and pigeons.
However, his main goal was to understand human behavior he did research on human subjects as well. His research with animals was just a convenient way to study various ways in which behavior is generated, maintained or altered, and extinguished. This is partly common sense. We all know that you can get someone to do something by rewarding them when they do it, and discourage someone from doing something by punishing them when they do it.
This was actually a very remarkable discovery. His research with pigeons was basically a systematic exploration of different possibilities of rewarding and punishing according to various schedules. Schedules refer to how often a behavior is reinforced. An interesting case that Skinner sometimes writes about is gambling see Knapp ; Skinner — Whether someone enjoys gambling and the type of gambling they enjoy depends on their history of reinforcement. But gambling itself has a variety of contingencies that are reinforcing.
Money is the common reinforcer in gambling—the contingency in the environment that provides reinforcement. If you win something at gambling you are more likely to gamble more. There are other reinforcers involved as well, such as the prestige or satisfaction that comes from beating the other person.
Chemicals such as dopamine are released in the brain that are reinforcing—that reinforce such behavior. But even coming close to winning can be reinforcing. Just coming close to winning can cause dopamine release. Skinner says that gambling uses a variable-ratio schedule, although some versions of gambling use random-ratio schedules.
In gambling you might win after the second round; then again after the tenth round; then again after the thirtieth round; and so on.
No doubt we can now give a neurological explanation of this, too; but Skinner mainly wanted to point out the empirical fact that behavior can be made more or less probable when consequences occur in a certain way. Variable-ratio schedules, he tells us, are behind some of the most powerful behaviors—not only addiction but also artistic creation and scientific research, where you labor long hours for inconsistent rewards.
We might observe ourselves experiencing different emotions, such as excitement or disappointment. But mental states, for Skinner, do not explain why the behavior itself is likely to occur or not occur. For example, Skinner often makes reference to eliminating war, which makes sense when you remember that he lived through two World Wars, a Cold War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
The problem with mentalistic explanations in psychology is that they do not explain behavior. In one essay Skinner says 21 , let us imagine that everyone who studies the mind agrees on what that is; let us imagine that we have discovered how brain processes relate to mental events. Will we have discovered the causes of human behavior?
Perhaps some behaviors and perhaps proximally, but not in a way that is ultimately useful to us in managing behavior. This is because we still have to explain the brain processes themselves. Why, for example, does the brain process A occur in situation B to produce the mental event C which produces the bodily behavior D? Brain processes are not simply self-generated with no influence from the environment.
Did Hitler order the extermination of the Jews because he hated them? It might be pointed out that, after all, we do not always—in fact, we hardly ever—kill or plan to kill people we hate and, in the case of judges, we sometimes order the execution of people we do not hate.
These variables—hatred and killing—seem to be independent of each other. To understand Hitler we need to look to his environment rather than to his feelings.
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