How Did B. F. Skinner Influence Modern Psychology

In my opinion, B.F. Skinner was a highly influential theorist in modern psychology. His work was hugely beneficial and has also been studied for years. Skinner was highly educated and know to be pretty straightforward about things. His theories have managed to help us in many ways. He studied the behavior patterns of many different living organisms including birds. Skinners most important work was the study of behaviorism and much of his work has been published in journals. He also wrote many books on the topic.

Behaviorism was first began by John B. Watson and is one of the most studied theories today. B.F. Skinner was one of the most famous known American psychologists. Skinner grew up to be the father of modern behaviorism. While at …show more content…
College wasn’t necessarily how Skinner expected it to be. He felt that physical education and chapel were unnecessary and to no importance to him. School got better for him as the years went on and was very comfortable with it by the time he finished. Skinner might have been somewhat of a jokester seeing as though he and a buddy in college decided to print posters saying a famous star names Charles Chaplin was coming to speak to everyone. They distributed the posters and got more of a reaction than they thought. Tons of people showed up to see an invisible Charles Chaplin. Soon after, Skinner graduated and began his new …show more content…
This was also known as his three-part thesis on human behavior. Skinner got married, had two children and was teaching Psychology at Harvard. At this point in time Skinner was happy with his life. He died in 1990 of leukemia at eighty six years old. Although he was dying he was still doing dedicated to delivering his work. Skinners theories and work will always be beneficial and looked at by many. His experiments have lead and will continue to lead the way of new theories. His books were also very helpful when it comes to helping people understand behaviorism and how if a person/animal’s environment was manipulated that their behavior would change. I find that all of his work was very beneficial and interesting and will help our future psychologists build off of it to even better explanations of things. Burrhus Frederic Skinner, in my opinion, did too much and gave everyone so much better understanding of things to not be one of the most influential theorists in