Saturday, January 17, 2009

Question - 161

The guy in the top left designed the apparatus shown in the bottom left. The person in the right is named after the person in the left because of certain similarities between them. Identify all.

Answer: The top left is B.F. Skinner, a renowned behavioral psychologist who designed the skinner box shown in the bottom to study rodent behavior and the character on the right is from Pixar's Ratatouille who is named Skinner as a reference to the psychologist. Vijay, Anshul, an anon, Manix, Rahul Trivedi, Hirak, Swapnaa, Schmetterling, Adi and Arvind got this. Well done.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

1. B.F. Skinner a psychologist
2. Skinner character from Ratatouille named after B.F.Skinner
3. Operant Conditioning Chamber created by B.F.Skinner

AJ said...

BF Skinner, Skinner from Ratatouille and the Skinner box.

Anonymous said...

1) BF Skinner
2) Skinner Box for animal behavior learning
3) Chef Skinner (Ratatouille)

Anonymous said...

(a) B.F. Skinner
(b) His inventions, the Operant Conditioning Chamber (aka Skinner Box). Mostly rats and other rodents were used as study subjects in the Skinner Box.
(c) Skinner, the rat-hating head chef in Pixar's Ratatouille

Rahul Trivedi said...

B. F. Skinner - invented air-crib and sous-chef Skinner (Ratatouille).

hirak said...

B F Skinner.
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Please don't show my lab apparatus. This is supposed to be an escape!

swapnaa said...

1. B. F. Skinner, the psychologist that followed the footsteps of Pavlov (they're both brilliant scientists who bugged animals by starving them before feeding them).
2. Skinner box: an apparatus designed to study rat behavior
3. Skinner the mean chef from Ratatouille

Schmetterling said...

Burrhus Frederick Skinner (Beyond freedom and dignity), behavioural scientist built the Skinner box/Operant chamber that "formulated important principles of animal learning" - established to study "Behaviorism and Programmed Instruction movement".
The right is the Ratatouille chef, Skinner.

Anonymous said...

B. F. Skinner, Skinner box, and Skinner from Ratatoullie.

Anonymous said...

The Skinner characted from Ratatouille, named after B.F.Skinner, who created the Skinner Box to train rats to push a button to ask for food.

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