Skinner

Skinner realizes that people don’t always like to believe that there actions can be predicted or controlled. People like to think that they are individuals and that humans are spontaneous and could never be controlled by one set of rules. Skinner talked in detail about personal control, education, and the government and how they all played a role in human behavior. A persons action are usually controlled by the society and the peers that they live with. If one does something that the society approves of then that individual receives “admiration, approval, affection, and many other reinforcements which increase the likelihood that he will continue to behave in the same fashion.” (Skinner 1057) If one does something that soci...