In the world of Phycology and science B.F Skinner is very well known, as he is America’s neo-behaviorist a very well-known phycologist most famous for the Box he had invented. To many it’s a very astonishing box that has changed the way many phycologist view people and are able to learn more it’s opened a door to new studies and their way of thinking. To others it’s a simple infamous box. There are many perspectives and myths of B.F Skinner many that are untrue he was judged unfairly by society. In the beginning of the chapter it gives some information about who Skinner is and what his life was before all the myths people became to hear and think of him. Just a man who attended Harvard who was very interested in knowing more and discovering more than the usual phycologist would. He was very persuaded to do so, that’s when he began to construct the box that was what got him known that’s where he began his experiments on animals, rats to be precise he studied their brains and what their next …show more content…
He was a very intelligent man who had so much potential and as his daughter had said in the chapter he had one mistake which was in the words he chose. Because of that people misinterpreted everything he had quoted and which is where I would say people began to assume and make assumption based on how they would see him and the things he’d say to the public that made him get some infamous . I don’t under-stand how people expect people to be good at something but just because they lack at another they have to bring down the name of that person. He had potential in something people should have not expected him to be good at even saying things in the way everyone would. But then again it’s not everyone. He has people that know the real philosopher, for example his daughter who had nothing but good things to say about her