
Certain basic assumptions essential to any scientific activity are sometimes called theories. That nature is orderly rather than capricious is an example. Certain statements are also theories simply to the extent that they are not yet facts. A scientist may guess at the result...

Certain basic assumptions essential to any scientific activity are sometimes called theories. That nature is orderly rather than capricious is an example. Certain statements are also theories simply to the extent that they are not yet facts. A scientist may guess at the result...

B. F. Skinner's Are Theories of Learning Necessary? is one of the central essays in twentieth-century behaviorist psychology, challenging the explanatory value of many traditional learning theories. First published in Psychological Review in 1950, this...

B. F. Skinner's Are Theories of Learning Necessary? is one of the central essays in twentieth-century behaviorist psychology, challenging the explanatory value of many traditional learning theories. First published in Psychological Review in 1950, this...