Julie S. Vargas (born 1938 in

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) is an educator who has written extensively on the science of behavior. Vargas is the daughter of

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and is the president of the B. F. Skinner Foundation, in

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. She is an officer of

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Biography

Vargas received a bachelor's degree in music from

Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...

, a master's degree in music education from

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and a Ph.D. in educational research from the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the universit ...

. She was a faculty member at

West Virginia University West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its other campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, Potomac State College ...

, 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

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". 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.

Bibliography

*''Writing Worthwhile Behavioral Objectives'', 1973, Harper & Row *''Behavioral Psychology for Teachers'', 1977, Harper & Row * * * 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''.An overview and a preview can be found at with

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, Taylor and Francis, 2012.

References

External links

B. F. Skinner Foundation
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