Occupation academic Name Julie Vargas Title President Role Educator | Spouse(s) Ernest A. Vargas Siblings Deborah Buzan Website www.juliesvargas.com Uncles Edward Skinner | |
Born 1938 Minneapolis, Minnesota Alma mater Radcliffe College
Columbia University
University of Pittsburgh Employer B. F. Skinner Foundation Education Radcliffe College, Columbia University, University of Pittsburgh Books Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching Parents B. F. Skinner, Yvonne Blue Grandparents Grace Skinner, William Skinner | ||
An Interview with Julie Vargas
Julie S. Vargas (born 1938 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an educator who has written extensively on the science of behavior.
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Vargas is the daughter of B.F. Skinner, and serves as the President of the B. F. Skinner Foundation, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Vargas is an officer of The International Society for Behaviorology.
Biography
Vargas received a bachelors in music from Radcliffe College, a masters in music education from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in educational research from the University of Pittsburgh. She served as a faculty member at West Virginia University 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". Behaviorology may be defined as the natural science of the behavior of organisms.