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Great psychological experiments of the twentieth century is one of those popular science books that leaves you feeling a lot smarter after you finish it. Skinner, america s leading neobehaviorist, was born in 1904 and died in 1990. Opening skinners box, lauren slater sets out to investigate the twentieth century through a series of ten fascinating, witty and sometimes shocking accounts of its key psychological experiments. He is known in the field of psychology for his famous animal experiments in which he demonstrated the power of rewards and reinforcements to.
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Skinner to harry harlow, slater outlines all the most important experiments, leaving out extraneous details but adding enough that it is still an enjoyable read. Personally, i had heard about his experiments before, and i do not think i would. A team of behavioral researchers has published a study that questions the authenticity of a chapter from lauren slaters book, opening skinners box, in which the author resurrects a volatile experiment that for years damaged the publics faith in psychiatric assessment. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, lauren slater takes us from a deep empathy with stanley milgrams obedience subjects to a funny and disturbing recreation of an experiment questioning the validity of psychiatric di. Always update books hourly, if not looking, search in the book search column. Chapter one introduces the relevant background studies that paved the way for skinner.
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