Burrhus Federic Skinner was born on March 20, 1904. He was an American psychologist; he also was an author and an inventor. He advocate for social reform. In 1958 he was teaching psychology in Harvard University later he retired in 1974. He invented the operand conditioning chamber, it was also known as the Skinner box. It is a laboratory apparatus used in the experimental analysis of behavior to study animal behavior.
He also innovated his own philosophy of Radical behaviorism and founded his own school of experimental research psychology. He discovered and advanced the rate of 
response as a dependent variable in psychological research. He invented the cumulative recorder to measure rate of responding as part of his highly influential work on schedules of reinforcement. He published 21 books and 180 articles. Then he died in August 18, 1990.
response as a dependent variable in psychological research. He invented the cumulative recorder to measure rate of responding as part of his highly influential work on schedules of reinforcement. He published 21 books and 180 articles. Then he died in August 18, 1990. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner
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