Summary Of Skinner's 'Act Of Behavior As A Science'

In this passage, Skinner addresses the act of behavior as a science. Skinner also communicates to the reader that in order for humans to survive as well as evolve, change is necessary. He found that humans, even in the earlier ages found some type of vital value in change that made it so needed for development. As humans, we yearn for freedoms, and the wanting of our own kind of control or power over a situation. Skinner believed that if individuals carried on the thought that our actions are involuntary, that only tyranny can result from this. The passage conveys the elements of how environment and human behavior interact as well as how both aspects stem from one another. Humans would like to possess free will, but so many things build on a sequential foundation that lead to the decisions we think
In order to develop and make improvement not only within ourselves but the atmosphere around us, change is vital to facilitate an actual future. Skinner states that environmental changes as well have always been the condition for improvement of cultural patterns, and also that we can hardly use the more effective methods of science to interpret some of these behavioral impacts without making changes on a grander scale. When a certain behavior wants to be elicited, one must push forward behavioral sub factors that will create that final behavior that wants to be resulted. Behavior in itself is something that as individuals we believe is not forced, but our environment does force it without one knowing it; unconsciously. Whether one is to believe whether one is free or not, there are plenty of things that interfere with the actions that we make. Skinner also states that there is also no time to abandon notions of progress, improvement, or human perfectibility; because man can now possess control over their room for