PSY 110 Study Guide - Final Guide: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Little Albert Experiment

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Luly Casares

Document Summary

Chapter 13- the behavioral/social learning approach: founder of behaviorism= john b watson focused on overt behavior (what you can see and can be observed in a lab). Personality is merely an accumulation of learned response to stimuli, sets of overt behaviors or habit systems. B. f. skinner: his personality theory wasn"t exactly a personality theory b/c he tried to account for everything in factual, descriptive terms (not just personality). He felt that one had to limit investigations solely to the facts exclusive emphasis on overt responses that a subject makes: said that psychology is the science of behavior of what an organism does. He made no reference to any kind of internal, subjective states to account for behavior. He said that they might exist (ex. defenses, drives) but there"s no use for them in science. He describes human beings as empty organisms there"s nothing inside of us that can be summoned up to explain for behavior in scientific terms.