7. Behaviourism and learning theory

7. Behaviourism and learning theory

1. descartes

   • animals as machines
   • animals as automata
   • reflex arc
   • hydraulic model
   • efficient causality
   • pineal gland

2. IVAN PAVLOV

   • conditioned response aquisition
     • gastric secretions
     • discrimination & generalisation
     • experimental neurosis
     • no mind
       • stimulus
         • reflexive
           • freedom reflex

3. JOHN B WATSON

   • Humans
   • tabula rasa
   • behaviourism
   • frequency, recency
   • mechanism
     • emotions as behaviours
     • innate reaction patterns
     • fear, rage, love
   • little albert
   • Watson on Tabula Rasa
   • applications
     • Stamphl's flooding technique
     • "mere exposure effect"
     • limitations
       • overwhelming
       • long time
       • disengagement

4. WOLPE

   • systematic desensitisation
     • neurosis in nonadaptive habits
     • muscle relaxation
       • relaxation + gradual exposure

5. mechanism to functionalism

   • learning
     • environment
       • experience
         • practice

6. E. THORNDIKE

   • cats
   • law of effect
     • stamping in
     • stamping out
     • more connections, more intelligence

7. SKINNER

   • CC- too simple
   • early development
   • functionalist
   • skinner box
     • cumulative record/ response rates/ extinction
   • reinforcement
   • punishment
   • radical behaviourism
     • no inner mediators
     • behaviour not experiences
     • extreme conditions
     • efficient causality
     • prediction and control

8. active organism

   • respondent behaviours
   • operant behaviours
   • active organism
   • reinforcement
     • schedules
       • punishment power
         • external events
           • functional analysis

9. explainations

   • purpose
   • faith
   • superstitious
   • personality

10. social implications

    • token economies
    • conditioned reinforcement
      • money
    • as skinner box

11. therapy

    • functional analysis
      • identify reinforcements
      • remove/mod
    • don't waste time
      • emotions
      • unconscious
      • needs
    • short
      • high structured
        • present-centred