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Quotes from Science and Human Behavior — B. F. Skinner

1904–1990 United States

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The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called "conditioning". In operant conditioning we "strengthen" an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.

Science and Human Behavior (1953)

Man's power appears to have increased out of all proportion to his wisdom. He has never been in a better position to build a healthy, happy, and productive world; yet things have perhaps never seemed so black.

Science and Human Behavior (1953)

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