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Download full textCasas, Martha – 2002
B.F. Skinner applied his concept of operant conditioning to education. Skinner believed that people acted the way they did because they had been reinforced for behaving in a certain manner. His orientation to pedagogy was predicated upon the notion that a student's behavior could be modified by guiding the student through the learning process…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
