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What is Behaviorism?
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Behaviorism is a claim that rejects
psychology as a study of the mind, but
rather a study of the science of behavior.
Behavior is easily described without a
direct correlation to the mind or thought.
Three Types Of Behaviorism:
Methodological
 Psychological
 Analytical
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Methodological :
Is a theory that claims that psychology
should concern itself with the behavior
of organism.
 The theory rejects that psychology isn't
totally about the mind.
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Psychological
Psychological behaviorism is sub category
of behaviorism that deals with human and
animal behavior when introduced to
stimuli. For example a starving rat in a
cage fitted with a food delivery system that
when activated by the rat it would
dispensed food, so the likelihood of the rat
pressing the lever to get food was highly
increased.
Analytical
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Analytical behaviorism is the theory
about the mental terms or concepts. A
mental state or condition is an idea of
behavioral disposition. Basically how a
person reacts to one event rather then
another.
History of Behaviorism
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Behaviorism was developed from 1880
to 1920, during the American
Progressive Movement, by John
Watson. Watson claimed psychology
was not a study of thought, but rather a
scientific study of the humans’ response
to thought.
John B Watson 1878-1958
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Watson was an American psychologist
who established the psychological
school of behaviorism.
His ideology was revolutionary during
the 19th century.
Before his contributions to psychology
was primarily based on cognitive
thought and relationships with other
individuals.
John Watson Introduced the cause and
effect relationship when introduced to
stimuli.
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B. F. Skinner 1904-1990
B. F. Skinner was one of the most
influential American psychologists
 He was a radical behaviorist and
developed the theory of operant
conditioning- the idea that behavior is
determined by its consequences and
that these behaviors can be conditioned
through reinforcement or punishment
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The Skinner Box
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The Skinner Box is a device
first developed by B. F. Skinner
used with his work on operant
conditioning
An animal subject is placed in
the box and a mechanism gave
small amounts of food each
time the subject performed an
action
With this device, Skinner was
able to research principles of
behavioral reinforcement and
conditioning
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How Behaviorism is used today:
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Today behaviorism is used to help the
functioning and performance of
individuals with: therapy, business and
industry, improving athletic performance.
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Popularity of behaviorism
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Behaviorism was a very popular
research program among students of
behavior from about the second decade
of the twentieth century through its
middle decade. Among psychologists
behaviorism was more popular than
among philosophers.
Behavior Therapy
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Behavior therapy developed behavior
management techniques for autistic
children and token economies for the
management of chronic schizophrenics.
It brought in discussions on what was
the best way to understand the behavior
of nonhuman animals, the relevance of
lab study to the natural environmental
occurrence of behavior, and if there is a
built-in associative bias in learning.
Bibliography
Graham, George, "Behaviorism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy (Fall 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
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"B.F. Skinner" Nndb, N.p., (2011)
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Image Sources
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