PSYCH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: B. F. Skinner, Radical Behaviorism, Operant Conditioning
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Behaviorism stimulus-response relationships that aren"t innate. Classical conditioning: learning how to pair stimuli. Operant conditioning: learning how to adjust behavior. Behaviorists also focus on the observable when studying topics of mind and learning. Behaviorism - an approach to studying psychology that involves studying the observable cause-and-effect relationships between conditions and behavior: Assumption: actions of the mind result from a stimulus/response relationship that has been, or is being, encountered. Assumption: research on the mind can be limited to looking only for observable and quantifiable measures of the mind. Radical behaviorism a form of behaviorism that looks at only the observable to study the processes of the mind. Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and i"ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist i might select .
