Skinner: Behavioral Analysis

Question 1

denial of experiences can be rewarding because it does remove the aversive stimuli/feelings of anxiety over punishment.

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Unconscious Behavior

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simply the result of random

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Creativity

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three forces of human behavior:

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Natural Selection
Cultural Practices
Individuals history of reinforcement

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is shaped by three forces.

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Human Behavior

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human behavior can be exceedingly complex

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Complex behavior

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find it difficult to become involved in intimate personal relationship, tend to be mistrustful of people, and prefer to live lovely lives of noninvolvement.(moving away)

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Escape

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increases our chance to survive are reinforced therefore lingers and be passed down.

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Cultural Evolution

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behaviors that are reinforcing (keeps us alive) tend to linger and be passed down.

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Natural Selection

Question 9

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

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Negative Reinforcement

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defined as the tendency of a previously acquired response to become progressively weakened upon non reinforcement.

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Extinction

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Schedule of Reinforcement

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Continuous Schedule
Intermittent Schedule

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it is reinforced after the nth response on the average.

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Variable Ratio

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are physically felt stimuli within the organism and not mentalistic events responsible for behavior.

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Purpose and Intention

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is a clear departure from the highly speculative psychodynamic theories.

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Behavioral Analysis

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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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three basic counteracting strategies:

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Escape
Revolt
Passive resistance

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is a procedure in which the experimenter or the environment first rewards gross approximations of the behavior, then closer approximations, and finally the desired behavior itself.

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Shaping

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moving against

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Revolt

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contingencies of reinforcement and survival.

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Emotions

Question 20

is the immediate reinforcement of a response.

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Operant Conditioning

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an individual’s behavior is controlled by environmental contingencies.

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Control of Human Behavior

Question 22

follow from self defeating techniques of counteracting social control or from unsuccessful attempts at self control, especially when either of these failures is accompanied by strong emotion.

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Inappropriate Behavior

Question 23

membership in a social group is not always reinforcing yet, for at three reasons, some people remain a member of a group.

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social behavior

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

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Science behaviorism

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each of us is controlled by a variety of social forces and techniques.

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Social Control

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there is a pattern on when the reinforcement is given

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Intermittent Schedule

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Passive aggressive, the most annoying one

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Passive Resistance

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is the presentation of an aversive stimulus, such as an electric shock, or the removal of a positive one, such as disconnecting an adolescent’s telephone.

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Punishment

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such as feelings of love, anxiety, or fear.

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Inner States

Question 30

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

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Classical Conditioning/ Respondent Conditioning

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involves covert behavior and often requires the person to covertly manipulate the relevant variables until the correct solution is found.

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Higher Mental process

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the organism is reinforced for the first response following a designated period of time.

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Fixed Interval

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is reinforcing when repressed sexual or aggressive stimuli are allowed expression.

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Dreams

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every time the behavior is done, the organism is rewarded/reinforced

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Continuous Schedule

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an unconditioned stimulus a number of times until it is capable of bringing about a previously unconditioned response.

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Classical Conditioning

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four basic intermittent schedule

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fixed ratio
variable ratio
fixed interval
variable interval

Question 37

we can control ourselves by controlling our environment

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Self Control

Question 38

the techniques of social control and self control sometimes produce detrimental effects, which results in

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The Unhealthy Personality

Question 39

Skinner believed that humans not only have consciousness but are also aware of their consciousness.

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Self-awareness

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Has two effects: it strengthens the behavior and it rewards the person.

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Reinforcement

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refer to the effects of deprivation and satiation

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Drives

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is one in which the organism is reinforced after the lapse of random or varied periods of time.

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Variable Interval

Question 43

when social control is excessive, people can use three basic strategies for counteracting it.

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Counteracting Strategies

Question 44

a behavior is made more likely to recur when it is immediately reinforced.

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Operant Conditioning

Question 45

the organism is reinforced intermittently according to the number of responses it makes

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Fixed Ratio