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Ogden R. Lindsley (August 11, 1922, inProvidence, Rhode Island – October 10, 2004) was an American psychologist. He is best known for developingprecision teaching (including the Standard Celeration Chart).
In 1948, he obtained an A.B. inPsychology fromBrown University and two years later in 1950 a Sc.M. inExperimental Psychology. AtHarvard University he studied Psychology underB. F. Skinner, earning hisPh.D. in 1957.
In 1953, Lindsley started the Behavior Research Laboratory atHarvard Medical School (Massachusetts Mental Health Center). There he analyzed the behavior of persons withschizophrenia. This was the first humanoperant laboratory. He invented the term "behavior therapy".[1]
During the time O. R. Lindsley was Director of the Behavior Research Laboratory (from 1956 to 1961), Lindsley was aResearch Associate in Psychiatry atHarvard Medical School. From 1961 to 1965, he was an Associate in Psychology. In 1962, Lindsley was awarded the Hofheimer Research Prize by theAmerican Psychiatric Association.
In 1965, Lindsley gave up the laboratory and moved intospecial education teacher training at theUniversity of Kansas. From 1965 to 1971, he was Director of Educational Research in the Medical Center and a Research Associate in the Bureau of Child Research. In 1971 he was appointed a professor in education at theUniversity of Kansas until he retired in 1990. He was an active emeritus professor until his death.[2] Ogden Lindsley died ofbile duct cancer on October 10, 2004, aged 82, at the Kansas University Medical Center with his wife, Nancy, at his side.
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