Lecture ( ). Skinner Flashcards
Skinner Birth Order
1st child of two children
Focused entirely on observable behavior, but that this is not limited to external events
Behavioral Analysis/Radical Behaviorism/Scientific Behaviorism
Such private behaviors as ___, ___, and ____ are all observable by the person experiencing these
thinking, remembering, and anticipating
a doctrine that avoids all hypothetical constructs, such as ego, traits, drives, needs, hunger, among others
Radical Behaviorism
Skinner concentrated on the relationship between ___ ____ and ___
environmental events and behavior
The structure of personality is composed of a shaping process which has two components:
- Differential reinforcement
- Successive approximation
occurs when an organism’s spontaneous activities are either reinforced or punished.
operant conditioning
Any consequence that increases the likelihood of a response is termed as ___
reinforcement
Extinction of a response occurs ___
when it is no longer rewarded or reinforced.
When reinforcement depends on a number of responses (ratio schedule) the organism will tend to ____
respond faster
If reinforcement is dependent on time (fixed schedules) the organism will tend to ____
pause after a reward
If reinforcement appears irregularly (variable schedules) the organism will ___.
keep going at a steady rate
Behavior theory is established as effective for maladaptive and adaptive behaviors such as the
- treatment of alcoholism
- drug addiction
- thumb sucking
- nail biting
- delinquency
- even psychotic disorders
The ____, not __ __, is responsible for behavior
environment. not free will
Skinner refers to behavior elicited or emitted by a known stimulus as ___ ___, and all conditioned and unconditioned responses are examples.
respondent behavior
