SO29: Examples of automatic reinfmt Skinner, a complex example: when learning how to write, or writing a paper, the important reinforcers are largely automatic: a sentence comes out right, it says something interesting, if fits another sentence. If these automatic reinforcers are powerful enough, the student may continue to write and improve his writing even though he receives few if any comments Money, grades, and honors must be husbanded carefully, but the automatic reinforcement of being right and moving forward are inexhaustible. 45 (Holland & Skinner, 1961, page 160; Skinner, Technology of teaching, 1968, p.
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