PSY 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Aspirin, Candy Crush Saga, Headache
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Angry birds and skinner: behaviorism in everyday life. Behaviorism (more precisely, behavior analysis) is not the most popular model in psychology. Despite having gone into the background when it comes to popularity, the principles raised by. Skinner remain valid, being used in a whole range of situations and contexts. This is possible because the principles of operant conditioning are applicable to every organism, including human beings. Operant behaviorism is based on a very simple premise: all behavior is affected by its consequences. It is a description of how the learning of organisms works, and in this sense, the laws of learning are not an invention (just as newton did not invent gravity), but a description of how all learning takes place. An interesting area to look at this is that of video games. In addition, much of the success of these video games can be explained through behavioral principles, even when they are not deliberately applied.
