BF Skinner

BF Skinner

1. Radical Behaviorist; Determinist; Environmentalist

2. Precursors

   • Thorndike's Law of Effect
   • John B. Watson

3. Conditioning

   • Classical conditioning (respondent; Pavlovian)
     • Elicited behavior: reflexive, involuntary
   • Operant conditioning (Skinnerian)
     • Emitted behavior: voluntary, conscious control
     • Shaping and successive approximations
     • Reinforcement
       • Positive reinforcement
       • Negative reinforcement
       • Schedules
         • Continuous
         • Intermittent
           • Fixed or variable
           • Ratio or interval
     • Punishment

4. Reasons behind lost responses

   • Forgetting
   • Interference from new or previous learning
   • Suppressed (punished)
   • Extinction

5. Unhealthy personality

   • Too much social control
     • Describing contingencies
     • Deprivation and satiation
     • Physical restraint
   • Counteracting strategies
     • Escape
     • Revolt
     • Passive resistance

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