This paper describes characteristic behaviors of my father, B. F. Skinner, using family documents and my own recollections. Early contingencies in his upbringing strengthened his love of building things and his independence in discovering how the world works. Those skills, combined with a lack of supervision in graduate school, set the stage for his discovery of the operant. He did not stop wit...

studying real as well as imagery spatiality of family roles and image of them for family members should be put among first steps of any architectural design program that aims to achieve in stabilizing of family pattern of a certain culture. its importance is more obvious for those cultures which want to save family structure as their basis of existence and growth. a literature review of current...

Abstract Virtually all illustrations of the life Confucius/Kongzi include a scene in which one his parents performs sacrifice on hillside, and many versions also depict paranormal events associated with birth. In most examples, protagonist is future sage’s young mother, Yan Zhengzai, but few cases she joined or even replaced by elderly father, Shuliang He. The variations among depictions someti...

despite the fact that the contents of items on the raven's progressive matrices have little similarity to the content of subjects taught in school, the correlation coefficients between iq scores and achievement test scores have been estimated to be about 0.5. six groups of 20 students were randomly selected from the first, second, and third grades of urban and rural guidance schools in sha...