Summary Of Opening Skinner's Box By Lauren Slater

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In “Opening Skinner’s Box” the author Lauren Slater thoroughly explains 10 different experiments done by famous psychologists in order to get the readers to understand how each experiment was interpreted, received by other psychologists, and how they affected the participants. Lauren Slater main goal in her book was to bring these 10 famous psychological experiments to life.
Lauren Slater opens up her book by giving a brief description on who B.F. Skinner is and the legends and myth that follows him. B.F. Skinner is a man known in psychology field due to his famous animal experiments. The animal experiments include how he was able to control animals’ behavior and how they react to objects. Skinner however, mostly focused on training animals
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