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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
World War II
Authors : Matthew W. Gosney, Claretha Hughes
Published in: The History of Human Resource Development
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
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In 1944, when World War II was in full swing would anyone have imagined that B. F. Skinner (yes, the same B. F. Skinner who developed operant conditioning) would be playing an integral role in America’s development of a weapon? Or, that his development would be related to training? Although he did not train humans, he trained pigeons to guide bombs by pecking a target that would hold a missile on its trajectory.