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Psychological Concepts: Functionalism and Skinner

Part 2. What theoretical concepts are attributed to B. F. Skinner? Which one of these concepts had the greatest effect on the fiel...

Ainsworth/Attachment Theory

following discussion of attachment theory, which particularly focuses on the contributions of Ainsworth, offers an overview of it...

Learning Theories And Teaching Models

to associate the ringing of a bell with being fed and would subsequently salivate when the bell was rung (Encyclopedia of Educatio...

Classroom Management Plan

know exactly what reward they are receiving for what behavior. A punishment may simply be the withholding of the reward (Sharpe, 2...

Watson, Skinner, Tolman

(Hunter College, 2008). After doing this seven times, i.e., give Albert the lab rat accompanied with the loud metallic, Albert beg...

Learning Theories and Teacher Practice Within the UK

as: programmed instruction, mastery learning instructional objectives, applied behavior analysis and contracts (Ormrod, 1999). Tea...

Motivation In The Workplace

the very same types of activities as primary drives, i.e., the individual needs to meet that need (Encyclopedia of Psychology, 200...

Life and Contributions of B.F. Skinner

the head of behavioristic psychology. It is a scientific approach. In Skinners view, it is not individual decision-making that s...

Behaviorism's Precepts from Ivan Pavlov to B.F. Skinner

This research paper consists of six pages and discusses the theoretical contributions of Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner to behaviori...

Therapy Approaches Behavioral v. Psychodynamic

is an emphasis on self-understanding that is founded on the premise that the more one understands himself or herself, the better a...

Human Behavior: Conditioned Responses

Utilizing rats and pigeons, Skinner (1965) set out to prove the whole of human behavior is based upon the fundamental concept of o...

Behaviorism and B.F. Skinner

The main point of Skinners theory was that learning was the result of a change in overt behavior, and those changes in behavior we...

Major Theories of Personality

In ten pages the personality theories of Maslow, Rogers, Adler, May, Skinner, Freud, and sociobiological theory are examined. Ten...

Business Uses of Psychology

In ten pages this paper considers how psychological principles including personality theories and the programmed learning theory o...

Models of Humanistic Psychotherapy

This paper examines how the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud and behaviorist theories have evolved into new and more holistic psych...

Major Theories of Behaviorist Learning

In a paper consisting of eight pages the behaviorist theories of Watson, Pavlov, and Thorndike are contrasted and compared in a di...

Learning and Psychological Theories

In three pages this essay discusses how learning experiences are psychologically influenced in a consideration of humanist, social...

Trade Dispute between Expando and Flexo Wristwatch Band Manufacturers

business operating within its borders. Flexo has asked its own State B customs service to impose a stiff import tax on Expa...

John B. Watson's Theory on Human Development

"nurture" side of the debate. These men were John B. Watson, who used Pavlovs experiments with conditioned reflex to explain human...

Theoretical Perspectives on Psychology

an active processor of information, and deals with the interaction between perception, memory and thought. We perceive the world a...

Self Pace, Open Entry Open Exit Vocational Education and Behaviorist Educational Views

both internal and external issues is overwhelming, claim behaviorists, when imparting knowledge upon their students. Consider the...

Human Development and Its Major Theories

social psychology are one and the same; that organizations are the result of "repressed desires and ambivalent memories of ancient...

Learning Theories

learning development is affected by the culture and environment in which he/she is raised (Funderstanding, 2001). In plain languag...

Exploration Pedagogical Approaches For Nurse Education

This paper reports and discusses several teaching theories including behaviorist, cognitivist, constructivist. Bloom's taxonomy is...

Festinger's Theory

There have been many important contributions to social psychology. Many scholars state that the most important theory in the field...

Key Behaviorist Theory Terms

that decreases the occurrence of or eliminates a behavior (Boeree, 2006). A good example is the child always talking out in class....

Abnormality and Views of Watson's Behaviorist and Freud's Psychoanalysis Theories

In five pages the elements of each theory is described as they relate to abnormality inderstanding with the conclusion reached tha...

Childhood Aggression, Cognitive and Behaviorist Theories

the amount of verbal aggression such as threats or insults increases. During this stage, person-directed or hostile aggression whe...

B.F.Skinner's 1974 Text About Behaviorism

In 10 pages this paper discusses the science of behaviorism as presented by B.F.Skinner in About Behaviorism. One source is cited...

Psychology and Carl Rogers', B.F. Skinner's, and Sigmund Freud's Therapeutic Approaches

perspective that is still basically Freudian; others have brought innovations to Freuds techniques (Nye, 2000). Freud relied heavi...