Behaviorism.txt

classical conditioning

food

salivating

bell

bell

salivating

attended johns hopkins, behaviorism

Give me a dozen healthy infants...

Baby Albert

went to school to be a writer, and back for psychology

RADICAL behaviorist

OPERANT conditioning

Personality is meaningless

Responses have environmental consequences; those rewarded appear again

emotional aspects of personality;

Walden Two

Skinner's novel. A design society of applied operant conditioning, controlling environment through pos reinf, communities founded on these behavioral principles

Habits, external AND INTERNAL states of environment

Combined psychoanalytic theory with behaviorism

Social learning theory

Primary drives

secondary drives (by satisfaction of primary)

Habit hierarchy (personality is probabgility of responses)

Agression occurs as result of blocking efforts to attain goal

Internal conflicts (approach-avoidance; approach-approach; avoidance-avoidance)

humans intelligents as rates learning life mazes

rigoros study, looks for gen laws that apply to all organisms, forces attention to environ influences on behavior

ignores cog and social aspects, dehumanize unique human potentials, dif between humans explained as consequence of reinf. histories, humans act as objects to be trained

Behavior determined by environment

experimental analysis of animal learning

teachig desirable habits and behaviors, extinguishing undesirable ones