The Basics
What is Behaviorism?
A psychology approach that it's focused on behavior, rather than mental state.
Who's John B Watson?
The founder of behaviorism
Define Classical Conditioning
Learning through association
Define Operant conditioning
Learning that occurs through a consequence
What's ABA?
A real-world application of behaviorism often used with children is this therapy
Behaviorists believe behavior is shaped primarily by this external factor called...
This theorists discovered classical conditioning while...
studying dogs and salivation
What's a conditioned response?
The learned response to a conditioned stimulus
What's reinforcement?
A consequence that increases the likelihood of a behavior
What is Education?
Behavior modification is commonly used in this setting to manage learning
What's stimulus?
Any event in the environment that triggers a response
What did B.F Skinner introduce?
Introduced operant conditioning and the Skinner box
In Pavlov's experiment, food served as..
Unconditioned Stimulis
What's negative reinforcement?
Removing an unpleasant stimulus to increase behavior
This is a major criticism of behaviorism is that ignores these internal processes...
Thought and emotions
What's objective measurement?
Behaviorism emphasizes this type of measurement to ensure scientific accuracy
Argued psychology should abandon introspection.
John B. Watson
What's conditioning?
When a normal stimulus becomes associated with unconditioned stimulus
When you reinforce successive approximations of a behavior is known as
Shaping
Cognitive psychology is defined as
Modern psychology integrates behaviorism with this approach to better understanding