PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Tabula Rasa, Social Learning Theory, Walden Two
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In walden two, skinner argued, human behavior and persons" lives are primarily the products of social learning culture. If human nature is the first fundamental context for understanding human individuality, then the social environment and all it entails- family, neighborhood, community, culture, and history- is the second. Behaviorism is a brand of psychology that explores the ways in which observable behavior is learned and shaped by the environment. B. f. skinner was arguably behaviorism"s most ardent enthusiast and eloquent spokesman. John watson launched the behaviorist movement in the us in 1913. Behaviorism was the dominant force in american academic psychology from.
