Major Movements in Psychology - Behaviorism
17 important questions on Major Movements in Psychology - Behaviorism
What is the Black Box Theory of the Mind?
This extreme antimentalism of the behaviorists has been frequently criticized and was finally put to rest by the cognitive revolution in the 1960s.
How do Behaviorists understand learning?
What is associative or classical conditioning?
If a neutral stimulus is paired with an emotionally meaningful one, than the neutral stimulus will become associated with the second stimulus and elicit the same response.
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What is the difference between the conditioned and the unconditioned stimulus?
How is classical conditioning relevant to everyday life?
It is therefore no accident that so many advertising campaigns hire young, beautiful, and skimpily clad models. The advertisers want consumers to associate their product with youth, beauty, and sex.
How is classical conditioning relevant to animal behavior?
Does your cat love to sit on the couch and purr? Does she associate the couch with affection and attention? Does your dog start to bark and wag his tail when you put on your shoes? Does he associate your shoes with his walk?
What is operant conditioning?
Operant conditioning builds on Thorndike's Law of Effect. If the effect of the behavior is positive, then it is reinfored, and the behavior is more likely to recur. If the effect of the behavior is negative, then it is punished and therefore less likely to be repeated.
What is the difference between positive and negative reinforcement?
Negative reinforcement, to be distinguished from punishment, involves the removal of a negative condition as a consequence of the targeted behavior.
How effective is punishment?
Although the early behaviorists avoided mental considerations, it is now clear that punishment, if done too frequently, creates anger, fear, and resentment and can breed an oppositional mindset, in which people try to cheat the system instead of willingly following the rules.
B.F. Skinner distrusted punishment as well, stating that it had only short term effects and it did not teach alternative behavior.
How is operant conditioning relevant to everyday life?
How is operant conditioning relevant to animal life?
Even pigeons can be shaped to do a particular behavior, such as peck at a lever, by successively rewarding behavior that more closely approximates the desired behavior.
How do reinforcement conditions affect learning?
The schedule of reinforcement also affects learning. Should the behavior be reinforced every time it occurs? What kind of reinforcement makes a behavior most resistant to extinction?
Why is intermittent reinforcement more resistant to extinction?
How is intermittent reinforcement used in gambling?
If the gambler had been rewarded for every bet, it would take fewer losses for the gambler to disassociate betting with winning and for the act of gambling to be extinguished.
Thus casinos take advantage of an intermittent and unpredictable schedule in order to keep gamblers gambling as long as possible.
What problems with behaviorism started to show up even among the faithful?
For example, Skinner had thought that any animal could be taught any behavior with the appropriate reinforcement schedule. But this did not turn out to be the case.
How were mental processes evident even in rats running mazes?
What was the Cognitive Revolution?
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