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dc.contributor.authorMorris, Edward K.
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Nathaniel G.
dc.contributor.authorAltus, Deborah E.
dc.date.accessioned2008-10-25T15:36:32Z
dc.date.available2008-10-25T15:36:32Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationMorris, E.K., Smith, N.G., and Altus, D.E. (2005). B. F. Skinner's contributions to applied behavior analysis. The Behavior Analyst 28(2): 99-131.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/4269
dc.description.abstractOur paper reviews and analyzes B. F. Skinner's contributions to applied behavior analysis in order to assess his role as the field's originator and founder. We found, first, that his contributions fall into five categorizes: the style and content of his science, his interpretations of typical and atypical human behavior, the implications he drew from his science for application, his descriptions of possible applications, and his own applications to nonhuman and human behavior. Second, we found that he explicitly or implicitly addressed all seven dimensions of applied behavior analysis. These contributions and the dimensions notwithstanding, he neither incorporated the field's scientific (e.g., analytic) and social dimensions (e.g., applied) into any program of published research such that he was its originator, nor did he systematically integrate, advance, and promote the dimensions so to have been its founder. As the founder of behavior analysis, however, he was the father of applied behavior analysis.
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectHistory
dc.subjectApplied Behavior Analysis
dc.subjectBehavior Analysis
dc.subjectB.F. Skinner
dc.titleB. F. Skinner's contributions to applied behavior analysis
dc.typeArticle
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccess


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