PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Radical Behaviorism, Observational Learning, Classical Conditioning
18 Dec 2016
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The environmental strategy grew out of behaviorism, a school of thought that can be traced to. Methodological behaviorism prescribes objective, scientific methods but does not specify or limit what can be studied: most psychologists today subscribe to methological behaviorism. In the environmental strategy, personality is presumed to develop and be modified through learning (changes in overt behavior) and experience with environment. Environmental theories assume that most human behavior is acquired and sustained by some combination of these three learning processes. The environmental strategy emphasizes the role of external forces acting on individuals to (cid:862)shape(cid:863) their (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior a(cid:374)d styles of i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)ti(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith the (cid:449)orld arou(cid:374)d them. The environmental strategy assumes that behavior is situation specific; the fact that an individual behaves in a particular way in one situation does not necessarily mean that the individual will behave the same way in different situations. Environmental research emphasizes studying personality phenomena through systematic, highly controlled research, especially true experiments.
