ABSC 160- Intro to Child Developmet: Unit 2 Lecture 4 Operant Learning Questions And Correct Answers
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ABSC 160
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ABSC 160
B.F. Skinner () - Correct Answer - Expanded the basic ideas of behaviorism to include the idea of reinforcement and punishment -- environmental stimuli that either encourage or discourage certain responses
- Helped establish and popularize the operant conditioning model of learning
- Skinner's ...
ABSC 160- Intro to Child Developmet: Unit 2
Lecture 4 Operant Learning Questions And Correct
Answers
B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) - Correct Answer - Expanded the basic ideas of behaviorism to include the idea
of reinforcement and punishment -- environmental stimuli that either encourage or discourage certain
responses
- Helped establish and popularize the operant conditioning model of learning
- Skinner's intellectual influence lasted for decades
Wanted to prove the environment could change a person entirely.
invented the Skinner box, innovated his own philosophy of science called radical behaviorism, found his
own school of experimental research psychology known as the experimental analysis of behavior.
Trained pigeons to guide missiles, he developed the operant conditioning to show behavior would
repeat if trained to by reinforcement
operant learning - Correct Answer Learning by which the subject learns to operate on the environment
to achieve certain consequences
a process by which the consequence of a response impacts the likelihood of that response in the future
A behavioral change is produced as a result of the interaction between the individual's behavior and the
environment. The arrangement of environmental variables to establish a functional relationship between
a voluntary behavior and its consequences.
Three components of a behavior model - Correct Answer Antecedent -> Behavior ->Consequence
Antecedent (stimuli) Behavior (observable or measurable acts) Consequence
Three-Term Contingency (ABC) - Correct Answer comprised of stimuli (events in the world)
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