B.F. Skinner was not famous for his work on stimulus-response-psychology, that work was carried out by his great predecessors, Ivan Pavlov and John B. Watson. Skinner carried their work forward by introducing a different form of learning known as operant conditioning.
He did not invent the air crib in order to observere and study his daughter, but to relieve his wife from the more tedious chores in baby-caring to free more time to just enjoy the baby.
(Posted on August 31, 2007, 11:01 am Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren)
