Ogden R. Lindsley was an American psychologist who lived from August 11, 1922 to October 10, 2004, best known for developing precision teaching, including the Standard Celeration Chart. In 1948 he obtained an A.B. in Psychology from Brown University and two years later a Sc.M. in Experimental Psychology. At Harvard University he studied psychology under B. F. Skinner, earning his Ph.D. in 1957. In 1953 Lindsley started the Behavior Research Laboratory at Harvard Medical School, where he analyzed the behavior of persons with schizophrenia in what was the first human operant laboratory, and he invented the term behavior therapy.
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Lindsley (August 11, 1922, in Providence, Rhode Island – October 10, 2004) was an American psychologist.
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In 1971 he was appointed a professor in education at the University of Kansas until he retired in 1990.
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It comes from a very strong quantitative scientific basis and was pioneered by Ogden Lindsley in the 1960s based largely on Skinner's operant conditioning.
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