Theories of Personality 9th Edition

460 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories As an environmentalist, Skinner held that psychology must not explain behavior on the ba ...

Chapter 16 Skinner: Behavioral Analysis 461 Warning his son of the necessity of making a living, William Skinner reluctantly agr ...

462 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories target. Almost 2 years before the United States entered the war, Skinner purchased a flo ...

Chapter 16 Skinner: Behavioral Analysis 463 In 1945, Skinner left Minnesota to become chair of the psychology depart- ment at In ...

464 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories study the consequences of behavior was Edward L. Thorndike, who worked orig- inally with ...

Chapter 16 Skinner: Behavioral Analysis 465 of food increases the likelihood of eating, then they can deprive a person of food i ...

466 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories disposition to deal with facts rather than with what someone has said about them” (p. 12 ...

Chapter 16 Skinner: Behavioral Analysis 467 conditioning (also called Skinnerian conditioning), a behavior is made more likely t ...

468 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories a rat does not generalize to fear of a block; and fourth, fear of a furry white rat can ...

Chapter 16 Skinner: Behavioral Analysis 469 (B) of dressing himself. This response must be within the boy’s reper- toire and mus ...

470 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories by a group she has neither seen nor heard but one she has been told is similar to her fa ...

Chapter 16 Skinner: Behavioral Analysis 471 differs from positive reinforcement in that it requires the removal of an aversive c ...

472 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories A third outcome of punishment is the spread of its effects. Any stimulus associated with ...

Chapter 16 Skinner: Behavioral Analysis 473 reinforcement value. Behavior can be shaped and responses learned with general- ized ...

474 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories For humans, playing slot machines is an example of a variable-ratio schedule. The machin ...

Chapter 16 Skinner: Behavioral Analysis 475 Extinction Once learned, responses can be lost for at least four reasons. First, the ...

476 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories however, “it is all a matter of natural selection, since operant conditioning is an evol ...

Chapter 16 Skinner: Behavioral Analysis 477 practices that have survived, just as selection plays a key role in humans’ evolu- t ...

478 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories event transpired “within the skin” of the worker. This private event, along with her ver ...

Chapter 16 Skinner: Behavioral Analysis 479 she feels a physical condition within the body and labels it an “intention.” What ar ...