B-01, B-02 History Of Behaviorism Chapter 1

Question 1

Respondent conditioning with dogs. Classical conditioning First study in 1906.

Answer 1

Ivan Pavlov

Question 2

Publicly observable Influenced by Pavlov Little Albert Believed we should study behavior by direct observation of the relationship between environmental stimuli (S) & the response (R)they bring out.

Answer 2

John Watson

Question 3

Radical Behaviorism Private events

Answer 3

Burrhus Skinner

Question 4

How did skinner come up with behaviorism? * 2 main sources

Answer 4

1. Darwinian Selection 2. Pragmatism

Question 5

What is Darwinian selectionism? AKA: selection by consequences

Answer 5

3 term contingency Species & survival Operates during a lifetime of the individual (i.e. ontogeny) and is similar to natural selection of the evolutionary history of a species (I.e. phylogeny). Operant selection requires variation in behavior.

Question 6

Pragmatism is…

Answer 6

Probabilistic AB-Because-of-C philosophy. Relationship of setting (A) & the behavior (B) is because of the consequence (C).