{"id":77469,"date":"2025-12-11T21:51:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/frederick-skinner-1904-1990\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:51:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:51:47","slug":"frederick-skinner-1904-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/frederick-skinner-1904-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederick Skinner (1904\u20131990)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American psychologist, behaviorist, who developed the theory of operant conditioning. He showed that behavior is determined by its consequences (reinforcement \u2013 reinforces behavior, punishment \u2013 weakens behavior). He invented the &#8220;Skinner box&#8221; for experiments and promoted the application of behaviorist principles in education, therapy, and society as a whole (behavioral technology).  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American psychologist, behaviorist, who developed the theory of operant conditioning. He showed that behavior is determined by its consequences (reinforcement \u2013 reinforces behavior, punishment \u2013 weakens behavior). He invented the &#8220;Skinner box&#8221; for experiments and promoted the application of behaviorist principles in education, therapy, and society as a whole (behavioral technology).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-1-distinguished-psychologists-and-their-contribution-to-the-development-of-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}