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Personality
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Chapter 6
Behaviorist and
Learning Aspects of
Personality
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Modules
Introduction: Behaviorist and Learning Aspects of Personality
6.1: The Classical Conditioning of Personality
6.2: Watson's Behaviorism
6.3: The Radical Behaviorism of B. F. Skinner
6.4: Applying Behaviorism
6.5: Other Learning Approaches to Personality
6.6: Evaluation
Conclusion: Behaviorist and Learning Aspects of Personality
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Learning Objectives (1 of 2)
6.1: Interpret the classical conditioning approach of
personality
6.2: Examine the genesis of behaviorism
6.3: Interpret B. F. Skinner's behaviorist approach
6.4: Apply behaviorism to explain personality
differences
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Learning Objectives (2 of 2)
6.5: Probe the work done by some of the other
experimental psychologists of the 1930s and 1940s
6.6: Evaluate how theories on conditioning, reward,
and extinction are relevant in current studies of
personality
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Introduction: Behaviorist and Learning
Aspects of Personality
− Uniqueness of behaviorist approaches
− Behaviorism
− Partial reinforcement
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6.1: The Classical Conditioning of
Personality
Objective: Interpret the classical conditioning approach of personality
− Locke’s views on infants
− Comparison of Locke’s approach to personality
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6.1.1: Conditioning a Response to a
Stimulus
− Classical conditioning
− Pavlov’s observations
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6.1.2: Behavioral Patterns as a Result of
Conditioning
− Behavioral reaction patterns
− Pavlov’s constructs
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6.1.3: Extinction Processes
− Extinction
− Outcome
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6.1.4: Conditioning of Neurotic Behavior
− Neuroticism
− Pavlov
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6.1.5: Complexities in Application of
Conditioning Principles
− Complexities
− Classical conditioning
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6.2: Watson's Behaviorism
Objective: Examine the genesis of behaviorism
− Behaviorist approaches philosophers
− Limitations of subject analyses
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6.2.1: The Rejection of Introspection
− Behaviorism
− Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist
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6.2.2: Conditioned Fear and Systematic
Desensitization
− Little Albert’s conditioned fear
− Systematic desensitization
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6.3: The Radical Behaviorism of B. F.
Skinner
Objective: Interpret B. F. Skinner's behaviorist approach
− B. F. Skinner
− Factors responsible for behavior
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6.3.1: Operant Conditioning as an
Alternative Description of Personality
− Operant conditioning
− Skinner’s rejections
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6.3.2: Controlling the Reinforcement
− Skinner box
− Process
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6.3.3: Skinner’s Behaviorist Utopia
− Walden Two
− Skinner’s proposed society
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6.4: Applying Behaviorism
Objective: Apply behaviorism to explain personality differences
− Role of biological factors
− Role of environment in hereditary characteristics
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6.4.1: Internal Processes, External
Causation, and Free Will
− Characteristics of organisms
− Similarities between Freud and Skinner
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6.5: Other Learning Approaches to
Personality
Objective: Probe the work done by some of the other experimental psychologists of the
1930s and 1940s
− Experimental psychologists’ beliefs in 1930s and
1940s
− Internal characteristics of organisms
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6.5.1: The Role of Internal Drives
− Clark Hull’s emphases
− Primary drives of organisms
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6.5.2: Social Learning Theory
− Neil Miller’s research
− Dollard’s and Miller’s study of personality
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6.5.3: Habit Hierarchies
− Concept of secondary drive
− Harlow’s studies on rhesus monkeys
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6.5.4: Drive Conflict
− Conflicts between primary and secondary drives
− Frustration-aggression hypothesis
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6.5.5: Patterns of Child-Rearing and
Personality
− Sears’s view of personality
− Measure of childhood personality
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6.5.6: Modern Behaviorist Personality
Approaches
− Behavioral theories
− Act frequency approach
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6.6: Evaluation
Objective: Evaluate how theories on conditioning, reward, and extinction are relevant in
current studies of personality
− Aspects absent in behaviorism
− Notions pervading psychology
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Conclusion: Behaviorist and Learning
Aspects of Personality
− Advantages
− Limitations
− Common assessment technique
− Implications for therapy
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