PSY 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Environmental History, Behaviorism, Reinforcement
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Tried writing for a year or so at home and got nowhere with that. 1931 phd and 5 years of post doc. at harvard. 1971 beyond freedom and dignity the whole concept of freedom was always from the freedom of tyranny and other negative things; therefore, freedom is an illusion. We really do not have freedom and should not be fully responsible for everything we do. Skinner is a radical behaviorist b/c he gets rid of the concept of the mind and leaves it to philosophers. Deals with reflexes, stimulus substitution in s-r connections. Response repertoire in any given situation an organism will emit a variety of responses. Positive reinforcement = given positive stimulus; give positive things. Negative reinforcement = taking away negative things to reinforce the behavior. Shaping = rewarding little by little for the behavior; reward behavior that can lead to something else to happen (ex. writing alphabet in grade school writing essays later)
