Skinner

Skinner

1. 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

2. Structure

   • Respondent
     • Stimulus
       • Response
       • Reflexes
       • Learnt responses
   • Operant
     • Differences
       • Spontaneous
         • Emergent behaviour
       • Effect
     • Discriminatory stimulus
     • Response

3. 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

4. Development

   • Learning
   • Genetic factors
   • Maturation

5. Criticism

   • Freedom & guilt
   • Animal research
     • Empirical foundation
   • Theory of personality
     • Theory of learning
   • Contradiction