November 30, 2021 / Last updated : November 15, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 6: Values. Quote 6 The things we call bad . . . are all negative reinforcers, and we are reinforced when we escape from or avoid them. (p. 104)
November 29, 2021 / Last updated : November 15, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 6: Values. Quote 5 Good things are positive reinforcers. (p. 103)
November 26, 2021 / Last updated : November 15, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 6: Values. Quote 4 A fact is no doubt different from what a person feels about it, but the latter is a fact also. (p. 103)
November 25, 2021 / Last updated : November 15, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 6: Values. Quote 3 Autonomous man is not easily changed; in fact, to the extent that he is autonomous, he is by definition not changeable at all. But the environment can be changed, and we are learning how to change it. (p. 101)
November 24, 2021 / Last updated : November 15, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 6: Values. Quote 2 As we learn more about the effects of the environment, we have less reason to attribute any part of human behavior to an autonomous controlling agent. (p. 101)
November 23, 2021 / Last updated : November 15, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 6: Values. Quote 1 In what we may call the prescientific view (and the word is not necessarily pejorative) a person’s behavior is at least to some extent his own achievement. (p. 101)
November 22, 2021 / Last updated : November 15, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 5: Alternatives to Punishment. Quote 15 The fundamental mistake made by all those who choose weak methods of control is to assume that the balance of control is left to the individual, when in fact it is left to other conditions.” (p. 99)
November 19, 2021 / Last updated : November 15, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 5: Alternatives to Punishment. Quote 14 The illusion that freedom and dignity are respected when control seems incomplete arises in part from the probabilistic nature of operant behavior. (p. 96)
November 18, 2021 / Last updated : November 15, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 5: Alternatives to Punishment. Quote 13 We sample and change verbal behavior, not opinions. (p. 95)
November 17, 2021 / Last updated : November 15, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 5: Alternatives to Punishment. Quote 12 We change behavior toward something, not an attitude toward it. (p. 95)
November 16, 2021 / Last updated : November 8, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 5: Alternatives to Punishment. Quote 11 We reinforce behavior in particular ways; we do not give a person a purpose or an intention. (p. 95)
November 15, 2021 / Last updated : November 8, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 5: Alternatives to Punishment. Quote 10 We change the probability of an act by changing a condition of deprivation or aversive stimulation; we do not change a need. (p. 95)
November 12, 2021 / Last updated : November 8, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 5: Alternatives to Punishment. Quote 9 We change the relative strengths of responses by differential reinforcement of alternative courses of action; we do not change something called a preference. (pp. 94-95)
November 11, 2021 / Last updated : November 8, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 5: Alternatives to Punishment. Quote 8 We change the way a person looks at something, as well as what he sees when he looks, by changing the contingencies; we do not change something called perception. (p. 94)
November 10, 2021 / Last updated : November 8, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 5: Alternatives to Punishment. Quote 7 Beliefs, preferences, perceptions, needs, purposes, and opinions are other possessions of autonomous man which are said to change when we change minds. What is changed in each case is a probability of action.
November 9, 2021 / Last updated : November 8, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 5: Alternatives to Punishment. Quote 6 By manipulating environmental contingencies, one makes changes which are said to indicate a change of mind, but if there is any effect, it is on behavior. (p.92)
November 8, 2021 / Last updated : November 8, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 5: Alternatives to Punishment. Quote 5 It is fortunate that those who object to the manipulation of behavior feel free to manipulate minds, since otherwise they would have to remain silent. (p. 92)
November 2, 2021 / Last updated : October 25, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 5: Alternatives to Punishment. Quote 4 It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behavior nevertheless make the most vigorous efforts to manipulate minds. (p. 91)
November 1, 2021 / Last updated : October 25, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 5: Alternatives to Punishment. Quote 3 Dependence on things is not independence. The child who does not need to be told that it is time to go to school has come under the control of more subtle, and more useful, stimuli. (p. 91)