What was B.F. Skinner wrong about?

That everyone can be conditioned based on standardized Stimulus-Response (SR) or S-R-S relations and that mental functions are akin to a “black box” not worthy of detailed investigation. read more

One of Skinner's core contributions to modern psychology was a theory called "operant conditioning." In it, he believed that people could be motivated by four different types of stimuli: negative or positive reinforcement and negative or positive punishment. read more

B. F. Skinner actually put forward – and this is a measure of scientific desperation over consciousness – the idea that consciousness was a weird vibrational by-product of the vocal cords. That we did not actually think. We thought we thought because of this weird vibration caused by the vocal cords. read more