%0 Journal Article
%T Extending B. F. Skinner's Selection by Consequences to Personality Change, Implicit Theories of Intelligence, Skill Learning, and Language
%A Murray J. Goddard
%J Review of General Psychology
%@ 1939-1552
%D 2018
%R 10.1037/gpr0000168
%X In a rooftop office, above a Minneapolis flour mill in 1943, B. F. Skinner discovered ¡°shaping¡± by training a pigeon to send a small wooden ball down a miniature alley to hit a set of toy pins. Skinner recalled that the day was one of great illumination and emboldened his later suggestions that human behaviors may arise from behavior¨Cenvironment interactions that are relatively malleable (selectionism) rather than arising from hypothetical inner constructs that are relatively fixed (essentialism). The present article extends selectionism to 4 current topics in psychology (personality change, implicit theories of intelligence, skill learning, and language) and highlights the advantages of selectionism, in contrast to essentialism
%K implicit theories of intelligence
%K language
%K personality change
%K skill learning
%K B. F. Skinner
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1037/gpr0000168