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Skinner

Sarah Ing English

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Skinner

View of person
- = View of humanity
- Evolutionism
- Environmental determinism
- vs animals
  - Complex
  - Variety of behaviours
  - Concious feelings
- Repetition vs reinforced
- Black box
- Needs & drives
- Freedom of choice
Structure
- Respondent
  - Stimulus
    - Response
    - Reflexes
    - Learnt responses
- Operant
  - Differences
    - Spontaneous
      - Emergent behaviour
    - Effect
  - Discriminatory stimulus
  - Response
Dynamics
- Acquisition
  - Behaviour
  - Reinforcement
- Respondent conditioning
  - Pavlov
  - Familiar response - new stimulus
  - Associating
- Operant conditioning
  - Preceding stimuli
  - Change + likelihood
  - Increase in behaviour
  - Reinforcement
    - Positive reinforcement
      - ++
    - Negative reinforcement
      - -+
    - Punishment
      - -- +-
    - Extinction
      - -
    - Schedules
      - Intermitent
      - Continuous
      - Step-by-step shaping
Development
- Learning
- Genetic factors
- Maturation
Criticism
- Freedom & guilt
- Animal research
  - Empirical foundation
- Theory of personality
  - Theory of learning
- Contradiction

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Description: Mind Map on Skinner, created by Sarah Ing on 15/06/2021.
Created by: Sarah Ing
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