Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American psychologist born in 1904 who is known for his emphasis on behaviorism. He is best known for inventing the Skinner Box to study operant conditioning. Some of his major works included The Behavior of Organisms and Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Skinner died in 1990 at the age of 86. Behaviorism can be applied in the classroom to control student behavior through reinforcement schedules, contingency contracting, prompting, modeling appropriate behavior, and using punishment.

1. BehaviorismFrom skinner’s thoughtFatima AliMasooma AlkhayatZahra IbrahimFatehSaleh

2. Skinner’s BackgroundName at birth: Burrhus Frederic Skinner. Born at 20th March 1904,at Pennsylvania .U.S.one of the 20th century's most famous psychologists, known especially for his emphasis on behaviourism.

3. Skinner’s BackgroundBest known as: The behaviourist who invented the Skinner Box.doctorate in 1931.Skinner authored several books like:The Behaviour of Organisms (1938)

4. Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971).

5. The novel Walden Two (1948).died at 18th August 1990 at the age of 86 .

6. Why we chose the theory?controlling students behaviors : (increase or decrease)

7. manage classroom discipline

8. Creating an orderly and stable classroom environmentSkinner – BoxThe theoryA video about Skinner’s Box.Click here

9. The Principles.

10. How can we apply it in class?Setting rules and consequences “Reinforcement schedules “

11. Contingency Contracting

12. Prompting “ cueing “

13. Prompting “ cueing “

14. Modeling

15. Rehearsing appropriate behavior punishment