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- noun the
techniques andtheories of B. F. Skinner
Etymologies
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Skinner + -ian, after Burrhus Frederic Skinner, American experimental psychologist.
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Skinnerism may not be in popular currency today, but its impact had been considerable on certain quarters that mattered.
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Psychosurgery, the method to alter or reconstitute the genetic components of man, was an offspring of Skinnerism.
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And who knows how the techniques of Skinnerism, if not psychosurgery, were applied?
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