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B. F. Skinner’s contributions to applied behavior analysis

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Our paper reviews and analyzes B. F. Skinner’s contributions to applied behavior analysis in order to assess his role as the field’s originator and founder. We found, first, that his contributions fall into five categorizes: the style and content of his science, his interpretations of typical and atypical human behavior, the implications he drew from his science for application, his descriptions of possible applications, and his own applications to nonhuman and human behavior. Second, we found that he explicitly or implicitly addressed all seven dimensions of applied behavior analysis. These contributions and the dimensions notwithstanding, he neither incorporated the field’s scientific (e.g., analytic) and social dimensions (e.g., applied) into any program of published research such that he was its originator, nor did he systematically integrate, advance, and promote the dimensions so to have been its founder. As the founder of behavior analysis, however, he was the father of applied behavior analysis.

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Morris, E.K., Smith, N.G. & Altus, D.E. B. F. Skinner’s contributions to applied behavior analysis. BEHAV ANALYST 28, 99–131 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03392108

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