PSYC 2283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning
2 Dec 2016
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Psyc 2283 lecture 10 skinner: behavioural analysis. Emerged from laboratory studies of animals and humans. Behaviour is the product of environmental stimuli. Constructed gadgets, played music, and wrote novels as a child. Attended hamilton college, earning a bachelor of arts. Earned his phd in psychology at harvard in 1931. Accepted his first job at age 32, teaching at the university of minnesota. Published the behaviour of organisms in 1938. Trained pigeons to guide bombs into enemy ships in world war ii, which he demonstrated in 1944. Realized his early ambition of becoming a writer when he wrote walden two. Also taught at indiana universe and at harvard. Ivan pavlov (1849-1936): russian physiologist: 1904: earned nobel prize in physiology and medicine. Presented food powder, collected saliva to determine changes in degree of their salivation. Found the responses of the dogs in the lab changed over time. Studied this phenomenon, and eventually established the concept of.
