It was Skinner's intent to form a new business concern with his son, Richmond Skinner, to be known as Ernest M. Skinner and Son, and to compete with the firm that Skinner had founded and that still bore his name.

He slipped to 12th in the standings halfway through the season, and Richard Childress decided to make a crew chief change, taking Mike Skinner's crew chief Kevin Hamlin and putting him with Earnhardt while giving Skinner Larry McReynolds.

In June Oxford wrote to Burghley reminding him that he made an agreement with Elizabeth to relinquish his claim to the Forest of Essex for three reasons, one of which was the Queen's reluctance to punish Skinner's felony, which had caused Oxford to forfeit £ 20, 000 in bonds and statutes.

Renowned psychologist B. F. Skinner's theories of behavior were highly influential on many early instructional theorists because their hypotheses can be tested fairly easily with the scientific process.

Pileggi's attitude fit well with Walter Skinner's character, causing Carter to assume that the actor was only pretending to be grumpy.

" He is a virgin well into his forties, but loses it when he becomes romantically involved with Principal Skinner's mother Agnes.

, Friday nights feature primarily reruns of various original series, the Saturday night schedule ( historically known as SNICK, in modern times sometimes called " A Night of Premieres ", when new episodes of three or four of its original programs are scheduled to air ) features episode premieres or repeats of iCarly, Big Time Rush and Victorious, along with periodic episode premieres of Supah Ninjas ( all first-run episodes are cycled on the schedule, giving a variable schedule ) and occasional original movie premieres, while Sunday nights feature first-run episodes of Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures and bi-monthly episode premieres of Nick News ( the latter of which after Nickelodeon gave the Sunday 8 p. m.

In a critique of Walden Two, Harvey L. Gamble, Jr. asserted that Skinner's " fundamental thesis is that individual traits are shaped from above, by social forces that create the environment ", and that Skinner's goal " is to create a frictionless society where individuals are properly socialized to function with others as a unit ", and to thus " make the community Two into a perfectly efficient anthill ".

The innatist perspective began with Noam Chomsky's highly critical review of Skinner's book in 1959.

As a popular superstition, the five-second rule pops up frequently in popular culture, including appearances in the live-action / animated film Osmosis Jones, Grey's Anatomy, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Arthur, Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures, Lucky Star and The Simpsons.

Skinner's psychological work focused on operant conditioning, with emphasis on the schedule of reinforcement as an independent variable, and the rate of responding as a dependent variable.

This essentially philosophical position gained strength from the success of Skinner's early experimental work with rats and pigeons, summarized in his books The Behavior of Organisms and Schedules of Reinforcement.

Skinner's empirical work expanded on earlier research on trial-and-error learning by researchers such as Thorndike and Guthrie with both conceptual reformulations — Thorndike's notion of a stimulus – response " association " or " connection " was abandoned ; and methodological ones — the use of the " free operant ," so called because the animal was now permitted to respond at its own rate rather than in a series of trials determined by the experimenter procedures.

This view is inconsistent with Skinner's complete description of behavior as delineated in other works, including his 1981 article " Selection by Consequences.

It is a fifty-one foot concrete Latin cross with neon inset tubing, and it is located at the crest of Skinner's Butte.

Her best remembered film is arguably the silent classic The Cat and the Canary ( 1927 ), although she also achieved acclaim for Skinner's Dress Suit ( 1926 ), with Reginald Denny, the part-talkie The Love Trap ( 1929 ), directed by William Wyler, and the 1929 part-talkie film version of Show Boat ( 1929 ), adapted from the novel of the same name by Edna Ferber.

However, Skinner's plans to use pigeons in Pelican missiles was considered too eccentric and impractical ; although he had some success with the training, he could not get his idea taken seriously.

The animated series The Simpsons parody the name of the movie with their episode " Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song ".

The desire to bring the organ under the complete and easy control of the organist was coupled with Skinner's lifelong interest and obsession with " orchestral " tonal colors and their application to the pipe organ.

Skinner returned to the United States with a new love for unison and quint Mixtures and more brilliant upperwork that was standard fare in English organs of the era although it is not clear whether this love sprung from Skinner's exposure to Henry Willis, III or Skinner's exposure to organs built by Harrison and Harrison, the English organ-building firm who had taken center-stage in the Edwardian era.

Skinner's particular contribution was to articulate a theory of interpretation which concentrated on recovering the ' speech acts ' embedded in the ' illocutionary ' statements of specific individuals in writing works of political theory ( Machiavelli, Thomas More, and Thomas Hobbes have been continuing preoccupations ).

Skinner's historical writings have been characterised by an interest in recovering the ideas of Early Modern and previous political writers.

This is a slight point to make but a valid one when considering that he was effectively the ' master of the archive ' and was brilliant at excavating ' obscure material ' Foucault concentrates more on neo-liberalism's political justification for state existence, rather than Skinner's techniques on controlling human behavior through controlling the mind Manuel Castells while operating in the field of social science dares to venture outside the limited field of social science which he noticed in his brilliant work Communication Power where

It is often said of this school of thought ( which dominated the field of psychology, at least in the Anglo-American world, for much of the twentieth century ) that it denied the existence of mental states such as beliefs, although at least in Skinner's original version it merely denied the theoretical utility ( or necessity ) of postulating such states in order to explain behavior.

Even Groundskeeper Willie refuses Skinner's order to turn his hose on the students.

Also staying at St Oswald is a man called Charles Traynor ( Denis Quilley ), who reveals that he was Skinner's commanding officer at the base during the war.

For instance, Thoreau's Walden espouses the virtues of self-reliance at the individual level, while Walden Two espouses ( 1 ) the virtues of self-reliance at the community level, and ( 2 ) Skinner's underlying premise that free will of the individual is weak compared to how environmental conditions shape behavior.

However, Skinner's vision quickly faded from prominence at Twin Oaks, as behaviorist principles were abandoned in favor of egalitarian principles.

In September 2002, Dale Earnhardt Jr. ran ( and won in ) a special Gossamer paint scheme at Richmond International Raceway during the Chevy Rock and Roll 400 weekend in which he and his brother Kerry ran Looney Tunes cars ( Kerry ran a Yosemite Sam car, who was also on Mike Skinner's Winston Cup car the next night ) in the Busch Series race, and nine drivers ( Skinner, Terry Labonte, Jeff Gordon crashed his Bugs Bunny car in final practice for the race and, therefore, the Bugs car never saw race action, Joe Nemechek, Kevin Harvick, Jeff Green, Robby Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, and Greg Biffle place of Bobby Hamilton, who was injured in a Truck Series race two days before ran Looney Tunes paint schemes.

* Peter Holyngworth, a member of the Skinner's Company 1483 present at the Coronation of Richard III

* Radical: Skinner's behaviorism ; is considered radical since it expands behavioral principles to processes within the organism ; in contrast to methodological behaviorism ; not mechanistic or reductionistic ; hypothetical ( mentalistic ) internal states are not considered causes of behavior, phenomena must be observable at least to the individual experiencing them.

Bart ends up pulling his prank at the same time as Principal Skinner's mother is using the facilities in the girls ' restroom.

* Skinner's original score, at University of Aberdeen

Murfree led the militia that repulsed the attack at Skinner's Bridge.

*" Skinner's Sense of Snow " at TheSimpsons. com

Programmed instruction resulted from early efforts to implement Skinner's basic research findings on learning at Harvard that led to " errorless discrimination " techniques being developed.

Oakley and Weinstein wrote several episodes for season five, penning the " Terror at 5½ Feet " segment of " Treehouse of Horror IV ", "$ pringfield ( Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling )", " Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy ", the show's 100th episode " Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song " and " Lady Bouvier's Lover ".

Skinner's lone 2008 win came at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and he finished sixth in Truck points.

Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, said their favorite scenes from the episode include Principal Skinner's flashback to Valentine's Day in Vietnam, the scene in which Chief Wiggum chases a duck to get his badge back, and the one where Bart and Milhouse play John Wilkes Booth and Abraham Lincoln at the school pageant.

" Jon Hein, who coined the term " jumping the shark " to refer to negative changes in television series, writes in Jump the Shark: TV Edition, " We finally spotted a fin at the start of the ninth season when Principal Skinner's true identity was revealed as Armin Tamzarian.

Skinner's actions are a reference to the shoe-banging incident by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at the UN in 1960.

In the acknowledgments at the end of his 1994 novel Virtual Light, Gibson writes that the short story later developed into the novel ; the character of Skinner is one of the main characters in Virtual Light and the setting and characters of " Skinner's Room " are revisited in the sequels to the novel, Idoru and All Tomorrow's Parties ( collectively known as the Bridge trilogy ).