Skinner

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theory of BF Skinner

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behavioral analysis

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other names of behavioral analysis

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• radical behaviorism
• scientific behaviorism

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behavioral analysis focused entirely on ______

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observable behavior

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doctrine that avoids all hypothetical constructs, such as ego, traits, drives, needs, hunger, among others

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radical behaviorism

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allows for an interpretation of behavior but not an explanation of its causes

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scientific behaviorism

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skinner concentrated on the relationship between ____ and _____

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• environmental events
• behavior

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behavior elicited or emitted by a known stimulus

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respondent behavior

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collection of behavior patterns

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personality

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2 components of personality

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• differential reinforcement
• successive approximation

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part of the structure of personality where reinforcement is used to create new responses out of the old

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shaping

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2 kinds of conditioning

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• classical conditioning
• operant conditioning

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a response is drawn out of the organism by a specific, identifiable stimulus

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classical conditioning

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occurs when an organism’s spontaneous activities are either reinforced or punished

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operant conditioning

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respondent conditioning

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classical conditioning

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skinnerian conditioning

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operant conditioning

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response drawn from the organism

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elicited response

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response that simply appears because of the organism’s individual history of reinforcement or the species’ evolutionary history

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emitted response

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environment or setting in which the behavior takes place

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antecedent

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reward

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consequence

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occurs when it is no longer rewarded or reinforced

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extinction of a response

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components of shaping

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• successive approximation
• differential reinforcement

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the experimenter or the environment gradually shapes the final complex set of behaviors

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successive approximation

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any consequence that increases the likelihood of a response

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reinforcement

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2 effects of reinforcement

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• strengthens the behavior
• rewards the person

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any stimulus that, when added to a situation, increases the probability that a given behavior will occur

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positive reinforcement

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removal of an aversive stimulus from a situation also increases the probability that the preceding behavior will occur

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negative reinforcment

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presentation of an aversive stimulus

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punishment

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environmental stimuli that are not, by nature, satisfying but become so because they are associated with such unlearned or primary reinforces

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conditioned stimulus

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associated with more than one primary reinforces

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generalized reinforces

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schedules of reinforcement

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• continuous schedule
• intermittent schedule

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reinforcement depends on a number of responses, hence the organism will tend to respond faster

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ratio schedule

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reinforcement is dependent on time, hence the organism will tend to pause after a reward

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fixed schedule

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reinforcement appears irregularly, hence the organism will keep going at a steady rate

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variable schedule