PSY 20673 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning, Human Behavior
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Skinner: behavioral analysis: overview of skinner"s behavioral analysis. During the 1920s and 1930s, while freud, adler, and jung were relying on clinical practice and before eysenck and mccrae and. Costa were using psychometric procedures to build personality theories, a number of behaviorists were constructing models based on laboratory studies of human and nonhuman animals. Early behaviorists included e. l. thorndike and j. B. watson, but the most influential of the later theorists was b. f. skinner. Behavioral models of personality avoided speculations about hypothetical constructs and concentrated almost exclusively on observable behavior. Skinner rejected the notion of free will and emphasized the primacy of environmental influences on behavior. Biography of b. f. skinner: f. skinner was born in susquehanna, pennsylvania in 1904, the older of two brothers. While in college, skinner wanted to be a writer, but after having little success in this endeavor, he turned to psychology. After earning a phd from harvard, he taught at the.
