BF Skinner On August 10, 1990 Burrhus Frederick Skinner received a citation for lifetime contribution to psychology from the American Psychological Association. It reads inpart: “With great sensitivity to the human condition combined with rigorous standards and a broad outlook, you laid the foundation for innovative applications of your work in clinical psychology, education, behavioral medicine, mental retardation, brain injury, and countless other areas. As a citizen of the world, you provide thoughtful, often provocative, and always compassionate insights into such uniquely human endeavors as ethics, freedom, dignity, governance, and peace. You fundamentally and forever changed our view of the human capacity to learn.” (Sparzo 1992, 225) B.F. Skinner was a man, as seen from the words above, who “fundamentally and forever changed” societies view of the hu....

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