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American educator
Julie Skinner Vargas
(born 1938 in
Minneapolis
,
Minnesota
)
[1]
is an American educator who has written extensively on the science of behavior.
[2]
Vargas is the daughter of
B.F. Skinner
and is the president of the B. F. Skinner Foundation, in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
. She is an officer of
The International Society for Behaviorology
.
[3]
Biography
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Vargas received a bachelor's degree in music from
Radcliffe College
, a master's degree in music education from
Columbia University
and a Ph.D. in educational research from the
University of Pittsburgh
. She was a faculty member at
West Virginia University
, where she and her husband, Ernest A. Vargas, taught for more than 30 years in the College of Human Resources and Education.
Behaviorology: Skinner's new science
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Vargas has written that "What B. F. Skinner began is not an 'approach', 'view', 'discipline', 'field', or 'theory'. It was, and is, a science, differing from psychology in its dependent variables, its measurement system, its procedures, and its analytic framework".
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She and a number of her colleagues have given Skinner's science the name "behaviorology", which may be defined as the natural science of the behavior of organisms.
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Her more recent publications have been articles, including two 2005 entries on B. F. Skinner in volumes I and III of
The Encyclopedia of Behavior Modification and Cognitive Behavior Therapy
, and
Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching
.
[5]
with
Routledge
,
Taylor and Francis
, 2012.
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