Skinner 's theories have lost most of there popularity amongst much of the scientific community, his realization of the stupendous importance of reinforcement to this day remains a very important discovery. He, like many others, believed that positive reinforcement could be used as a great means of shaping one 's behavior. As a matter of fact this idea is still given great amounts of “praise ' especially in many of today 's schools. Many of Skinner 's beliefs are still, to this very day, being promoted by the B.F Skinner foundation, which is headed by his daughter. Even though B. F. Skinner has been gone for many years his findings still have a very profound and noticeable effect on the way that we live our lives today. In fact many of his traditions continue to influence our society, such as how he, rather than use coercive practices to “fix behavior”, would use and recommend the use of positive reinforcement. The results of his shaping techniques are seen every where from the way a teacher teaches a child in a classroom all the way to how a supervisor teaches his
Skinner 's theories have lost most of there popularity amongst much of the scientific community, his realization of the stupendous importance of reinforcement to this day remains a very important discovery. He, like many others, believed that positive reinforcement could be used as a great means of shaping one 's behavior. As a matter of fact this idea is still given great amounts of “praise ' especially in many of today 's schools. Many of Skinner 's beliefs are still, to this very day, being promoted by the B.F Skinner foundation, which is headed by his daughter. Even though B. F. Skinner has been gone for many years his findings still have a very profound and noticeable effect on the way that we live our lives today. In fact many of his traditions continue to influence our society, such as how he, rather than use coercive practices to “fix behavior”, would use and recommend the use of positive reinforcement. The results of his shaping techniques are seen every where from the way a teacher teaches a child in a classroom all the way to how a supervisor teaches his