(Pavlov’s dog, anyone?) Skinner also advocated using machines to teach and reinforce good classroom behavior. The “reward” approach was used heavily in language labs and also laid the ...

Forty years later, Burrhus Frederic Skinner built upon Pavlov's observations as a young psychologist in graduate school. He constructed a soundproof, lightproof chamber that housed a small animal ...

The analysis revealed him to be a tireless worker, one who introduced a new approach to behavioral science by building on the theories of Ivan Pavlov and John Watson. Skinner wasn’t interested ...