Frederic Skinner, commonly know as "B. F." Skinner, was born in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. His parents were William and Grace Skinner and he had brother but at the age of sixteen he died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Two years prior to his brothers tragic passing, a Christian teacher tried to make his grandmothers vision of hell less intense and therefore Skinner became an atheist. While attending Harvard in 1926, he developed what some may call his greatest invention: The Skinner Box. Perhaps Skinners greatest…
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