ABSTRACT
I remember the first time I was introduced to the work of B. F. Skinner; it was stunning. I had such a hard time accepting that this Harvard researcher boiled down learning to Pavlovian responses. Of course this is a gross, very gross, generalization of Skinner’s theories of stimulus–response observational growth, but that is just the way it hit me. Then I got my first teaching assignment: middle-school history classes! Maybe, Skinner was onto something. In any event, the lesson I took away from his theories and my experience is that behavior setting becomes not the learning in itself, but the pathway for growth and learning that will lead to changes from the initial behavior, thus growing from the response.
