Abstract
B. F. Skinner began graduate school thinking he would extend Pavlov and Watson’s stimulus-response analysis of behavior. He met the physiologist William Crozier who encouraged Skinner’s inductive approach. With little supervision and a willingness to build new equipment and start over, Skinner’s work was determined largely by the data he was getting. Bit by bit those data shaped the operant chamber that allowed Skinner to discover that postcedents, not antecedents determined what his rats did. Thus began a new science. The science eliminates the role of hypothesized inner agencies and instead relates properties of behavior directly to contingent events.
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