PSYCH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Classical Conditioning, B. F. Skinner, Radical Behaviorism
Document Summary
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 . Paired rats with a frightening noise of a loud bang . Learning how stimuli around us are connected (classical conditioning) Learning the consequences of our actions in different environments (operant conditioning) If i do this in this environment, then that will happen.
