PSYC 370 Chapter Notes -Behaviorism, Reinforcement, Environmentalism
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If understand how conditioning works and can manipulate variables can. Experience writes everything and modify reflexively to fit the current environment: skinner reject respondent conditioning as limited and uninterested, view humans are lawfully regulated and mechanistic, behavior occurs in environment environment is neural. Organism acting on the environment and consequences of actions produced that determine which response will be learned/abandoned. Individual control himself precisely as he would control behavior of anyone else o. Functional analysis: linking behavior to its antecedents, establishment of cause & effect relationships, by linking responses to environmental causes sufficient psychological and scientific explanation and do not need to invoke internal states o. Internal states collateral products of our genetic and environmental histories. What is personality: theories = unnecessary and purely descriptive, some human behavior is variable and modifiable while some is relatively consistent and unchanging, genetic endowments will make some behavior difficult or impossible to alter.
