PSY 538 Quiz 11 Poem and Self

Question 1

What is the issue?

Answer 1

who does what, who acts to produces something and therefore deserves credit?

Question 2

The broader statement of the main issue.

Answer 2

The person does not act upon the environment, perceiving it and deciding what to do about it; the environment acts upon the person, determining that he will perceive it and act in special ways.

Question 3

What is meant by locus

Answer 3

Place in which certain genetic and environmental causes come together to have a common effect.

Question 4

What is the poet a locus for?

Answer 4

The poet has access to the poem during gestation. ??

Question 5

What is the key term in Darwin’s title?

Answer 5

Origin

Question 6

How is selection “a special form of causality?”

Answer 6

Contingencies of survival created new forms. ??

Question 7

Skinner’s first question in his Self paper

Answer 7

Is there a place in the scientific analysis of behavior for an initiating, originating, creative self?

Question 8

The three types of selection and their respective fields?

What is the terms they use to label the individual?

Answer 8

a. Natural Selection, Operant conditioning, and the evolution of social contingencies or Cultures.
b. Ethology, Behavior Analysis, and Anthropology.
c. Natural Selection uses organism. Operant conditioning uses person. Cultures gives us self.

Question 9

The problem with the English language.

How does behavior analysis view it?

Answer 9

The English language evolved when it was generally believed that behavior started within the individual.

In a behavioral analysis the
environment acts first, in either of two ways: Operant or respondent condition.

Question 10

Be able to list Skinner’s analyses of the common examples of the use of the term self- self-observation, self-esteem, the responsible self, self-confidence, the rational self

Answer 10

1. Self-
2. Self-observation: We observe our self and report what we are doing.
3. Self-esteem: a culture commends and rewards those of its members that do useful or interesting things, in part by calling them and the things they do good or right.
4. Responsible self: The self-esteem appears to be a product of the positively reinforcing practices of social environments.
5. Self-confidence: Even though we are not actually in control of our behavior, is it not important that we believe we are?
6. Rational self: Rule governed behavior.

Question 11

For Skinner we can always substitute what when we use the term mind?

Answer 11

Organism or person