Classical Conditioning
The belief that one is born with a blank slate as an infant.
What is tabula rasa?
The person who utilized Pavlov’s theory to manipulate emotional reactions, as demonstrated in Little Albert’s case
Who is Watson?
Skinner attended this institution to better understand behavior rather than to write about it.
Why Harvard?
Theorists Freud and Skinner did not believe in this concept.
What is free will?
The scientific method of gathering data in which the researcher manipulates different variables to establish causation.
What is experimental research?
Pavlov's behaviorall procedure in which a desired stimulus is paired with a neutral stimulus
What is classical conditioning?
The strategy derived from the method used with Little Albert to counterconditioning techniques like classical conditioning.
What is systematic desensitization?
What is reinforcement?
According to Skinner's perspective on radical determinism, this is an important factor in behavior that naturally selects based on survival and reproduction.
The secondary phenomena derived from real phenomena of experience.
What is epiphenomena?
Researchers that rely on ideas of internal traits, tendencies, defenses, and motivations.
Who are behaviorists?
The result of a repeated association of one stimulus with another that causes an individual to be startled or afraid.
What is a generalized fear response?
Skinner believed that this did not exist but instead were just observed behaviors strung together.
What is personality?
Skinner’s theory of personality states that only this being can have a personality.
What is an organism?
The group of theorists that are unwilling to recognize internal structures and less able to benefit from advancements and developments of other psychology fields due to their beliefs.
Who are radical behaviorists?/What is radical behaviorism?
Physiologist who laid the foundation to modern learning approaches.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Virtual reality technology utilized in current research investigating the efficacy of treatment for phobias.
What are electronically reproduced anxiety-provoking scenarios for systematic desensitization procedures?
When behavior is changed by consequences using the manipulation of the environment.
Skinner's perspective on Freud's theory of the id being an instinctual energy.
What is the innate susceptibility to reinforcement?
This theory may ignore advancements from other fields of psychology, dehumanize unique human experiences, refuse the notion of enduring dispositions within individuals, and tend to view humans as objects.
What are the limits of behaviorism?
When a conditioned response becomes less frequent which results in the association weakening and then disappearing.
What is the extinction process?
Watson’s concept of a child as a “blank slate” served as the basis for this person's research, who then placed emphasis on the critical role of the environment in influencing behavior.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Skinner believed that utilizing the skinner box would create a Utopia because people are products of their environment and NOT this concept.
Benjamin Franklin's Habit chart is part of this Skinner belief.
What is personality as a learned behavior?
Despite it being a disregarded practice in behaviorism, Spelman College encourages its students to engage in journaling and mindfulness to increase our self-awareness.
What is introspection?