In point of fact, the ethical sins that Skinner gets popularly saddled with fall more squarely on Ivar Lovaas and John Watson. Both Lovaas and Watson presented behaviorism as a method of training (I refuse to call their version “learning”) that used positive and negative forms of reinforcement (applying or denying) and applied both rewards and punishments (pleasant or unpleasant things)…
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The Source of Language: A Discussion of Skinner versus Chomsky
Communication is an endemic feature of all life, and it manifests across a dizzying range of methods from pheromonal expressions of insects to canine body language to whalesong.