The Human Race: An Experiment

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This paper discusses Lauren Slater's, author of "Opening Skinner's Box", concept of research. It explores what makes the human being a species unlike any other. It explains that Slater focused on the research of B. F. Skinner as a means of approaching theories of behavior from the most restricted concepts in order to understand what was true and what was mere theory about addiction.

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"Lauren Slater, author of Opening Skinner's Box, discussed her concept of research as a desire to determine what made the human being a species unlike any other. Slater focused on the research of B.F. Skinner as a means of approaching theories of behavior from the most restricted concepts in order to understand what was true and what was mere theory about addiction. Through an examination of these ideas Slater then presented the factual information for consideration in her research, opening yet another vision into the human mind (Slater, 2004, p. 2). Her discussion of Bruce Alexander's experiment, "rat park" elaborates on a scientific venture that was intended to end the world's false notions about drug addiction. However, the reliability of the experiment was immediately a concern of both the scientific community, as well as governmental entities. Furthermore, when the experiment was considered to be inconclusive it became apparent that ..."

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