In a paper written shortly before his death, B. F. Skinner stated that " cognitive science is the creation science of psychology.

The theory of operant conditioning was developed by B. F. Skinner and is known as Radical Behaviorism.

Several antiquaries beginning with John Brady offered a back-construction to its being originally known as Lamb-mass, under the undocumented supposition that tenants of the Cathedral of York, dedicated to St. Peter ad Vincula, of which this is the feast, would have been required to bring a live lamb to the church, or, with John Skinner, " because Lambs then grew out of season.

Skinner put forward a " three term contingency model " which helped promote analysis of behavior based on the " Stimulus-Response-Consequence Model " in which the critical question is: " Under which circumstances or antecedent ' stimuli ' does the organism engage in a particular behavior or ' response ', which in turn produces a particular ' consequence '?

* Walter Skinner ( seasons 1 – 8, recurring ; season 9, main ) – is portrayed by Mitch Pileggi.

Skinner is an FBI assistant director who served in the United States Marine Corps in the Vietnam War.

Although he is originally portrayed as a somewhat malevolent character, Skinner eventually becomes a close friend of Mulder and Scully.

* Walden Two ( 1948 ) by B. F. Skinner, a community in which every aspect of living is put to rigorous scientific testing.

* In The Simpsons episode, " Holidays of Future Passed ", the episode set in December 2041, Bart is a deadbeat dad living in Springfield Elementary ( which is now an apartment complex instead of a school ) with Principal Skinner as his landlord.

It was at one of these open houses that the young Harvard student B. F. Skinner credits a discussion with Whitehead as providing the inspiration for his work Verbal Behavior in which language is analyzed from a behaviorist perspective.

Stephen Skinner suggests that it is possible to place a geometric diagram over virtually any image of a natural object or human created structure, and find some lines intersecting the image.

If the geometric diagram does not intersect major physical points in the image, the result is what Skinner calls " unanchored geometry.

In the United Kingdom, the history of political thought has been a particular focus since the late 1960s and is associated especially with the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, where until recently such scholars as John Dunn and Quentin Skinner studied European political thought in its historical context, emphasizing the emergence and development of such concepts as the state and freedom.

Skinner in particular is renowned for his provocative methodological essays, which were and are widely read by philosophers and practitioners of other humanistic disciplines, and did much to give prominence to the practice of intellectual history.

Traynor had ordered Skinner to destroy the apparatus the scientists at the base were working on, and he is eager to learn from Skinner if he succeeded in the task.

* In The Simpsons episode, " Holidays of Future Passed ", the episode set in December 2041, Bart is a deadbeat dad living in Springfield Elementary ( which is now an apartment complex instead of a school ) with Principal Skinner as his landlord.

As pointed out on The Simpsons Archive episode capsule for Sweets and Sour Marge, " When the people-ball is rolling toward Hans Moleman and Agnes Skinner, you can see another Moleman in the ball if you watch in slo-mo ( upper left corner of the screen, I believe ).

Another theme is her relationship with the school principal, Seymour Skinner.

It is also revealed in The Ned-Liest Catch that she has " dated " in addition to Skinner, Moe Szyslak, Lenny, Carl, Comic Book Guy, Joey Kramer, Krusty the Clown, Cletus Spuckler and several others.

Later, Quimby briefly flees the city thinking his corruption has been exposed and is deemed to have " abandoned office " and is replaced by a short-lived " council of learned citizens " headed by Lisa Simpson, Professor Frink, Comic Book Guy, Lindsey Naegle, Dr. Hibbert, and Principal Skinner.

Skinner remains loyal to the policies on which he originally was elected into office, reflected by his membership of the Socialist Campaign Group.

* On 8 December 2005, when referring to the economic record of the Conservatives in the 1980s, making the remark, " The only thing that was growing then were the lines of coke in front of boy George and the rest of the Tories ", a reference to allegations originally published in the Sunday Mirror of cocaine use by the Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne ( though, in the Commons, Skinner referred to the News of the World ).

The strathspey was originally conceived for the fiddle, using a peculiar bowing technique that would produce its characteristic " scotch-snap " rhythm ; many newer strathspeys were written in the 18th and 19th centuries by composers such as William Marshall and James Scott Skinner, who utilised the full range of the fiddle to produce many memorable tunes.

Skinner had originally referred to operant conditioning as Type I and Pavlovian conditioning as Type II.

Manzaera's second solo album K-Scope ( 1978 ) was originally intended to be the second 801 studio album, and indeed it featured featured many of the same personnel from Listen Now, including Ainley, Bill and Ian McCormick, John Wetton, Simon Phillips, Mel Collins, Tim and Neil Finn, Eddie Rayner, Godley and Creme, and keyboard player Dave Skinner.

A group of U. S. Marine simulations experts originally led by Major Kirk Skinner, including Lieutenant Luis Velasquez and Lieutenant Scott Barnett as the project officers with Sergeant Snyder as one of the designers and modelers, in Quantico, Virginia of the Automated Information Systems Office, and later Marine Corps Modeling and Simulation Management Office ( MCMSMO ), obtained a copy of the commercial Doom, released in 1993 by id Software, and used it to develop a simulation that focused on mutual fireteam support, protection of the automatic rifleman, proper sequencing of an attack, ammunition discipline and succession of command.

The site was excavated by John Skinner in 1816-17 who gained the entry through a hole originally made about 1760.

* Aaron Skinner ( 1800 – 1858 )— civic figure and supervisor of improvements to Grove Street Cemetery

Initially, Skinner acts solely as a supervisor to Agent Mulder and Dana Scully's investigations of the paranormal.

So he presided at the trial of John Claydon, Skinner and citizen of London, who after five years imprisonment at various times had made public abjuration before the late archbishop, Arundel, but now was found in possession of a book in English called The Lanterne of Light, which contained the heinous heresy that the principal cause of the persecution of Christians was the illegal retention by priests of the goods of this world, and that archbishops and bishops were the special seats of Antichrist.

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.

In 1954 Vining received the Women's National Book Association Skinner Award, for " meritorious work " in her special field ".

Skinner presents verbal behavior as a function of controlling consequences and stimuli, not as the product of a special inherent capacity.

A special edition for Comic Relief called Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned & Unpaid was done in front of a celebrity audience in 2001.

On Raw XV, the 15th-anniversary WWE Raw special on December 10, 2007, Neidhart participated in the 15th Anniversary Battle Royal, eventually making it to the final five before being eliminated by Skinner.

Four main characters from the television series appear in the film: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi and William B. Davis reprise their respective roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner and the Cigarette-Smoking Man.

* Jane Skinner, former anchor for Fox News Channel

Skinner is the father of Thomas V. Skinner, former head of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's national compliance program and director of the EPA's region 5, Steven Skinner, CEO of KemperSports Management, and Jane Skinner, a former news anchor on Fox News Channel's Happening Now, and wife of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

* Jane Skinner, Fox News daytime news anchor

FBI Assistant Director Walter Sergei Skinner is a fictional character in the American Fox television shows The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen, two science fiction shows about a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of Alien existence.

The first season introduced main characters of the series, including Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who were portrayed by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson respectively, and recurring characters Deep Throat, Walter Skinner and The Smoking Man.