B. F. Skinner's Legacy to Human Infant Behavior and Development

B. F. Skinner's Legacy to Human Infant Behavior and Development

B. F. Skinner's legacy to human behavioral research for the study of environment-infant interactions, and indeed for the conception of development itself, is described and exemplified. The legacy is largely the practicality, the efficiency, and the comparative advantage-relative to diverse othe...

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Veröffentlicht in:The American psychologist 1992-11, Vol.47 (11), p.1411-1422
Hauptverfasser: Gewirtz, Jacob L, Peláez-Nogueras, Martha
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Babies
Behavior
Behaviorism
Behaviour
Child Behavior
Child Development
Child, Preschool
Conditioning, Operant
Development
Human
Humans
Infant
Infant Development
Infants
Mother-Child Relations
Reinforcement (Psychology)
Skinner (Burrhus Frederic)
Skinner, B F (Burrhus Frederic Skinner) (1904-1990)
Social Environment
Social research
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Zusammenfassung:B. F. Skinner's legacy to human behavioral research for the study of environment-infant interactions, and indeed for the conception of development itself, is described and exemplified. The legacy is largely the practicality, the efficiency, and the comparative advantage-relative to diverse other behavioral and nonbehavioral approaches-of using the operant-learning paradigm to organize and explain many of the sequential changes in behavior patterns conventionally thought to constitute infant development.
ISSN:0003-066X
1935-990X
DOI:10.1037/0003-066X.47.11.1411