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_______ is a Russian Behavioralist psychologist who, while studying the digestive system of dogs discovered the concept of classical conditioning.
Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936)
Feeding dogs and measuring their salivating glands test proved _______.
Pavlov's Classical Conditioning Theory
________ is the "Father of Behaviorism". He explored the application of classical conditioning in humans.
John B. Watson (1878 - 1958)
John Watson proved his behavior theory with a test- known as the with ________. Watson gave a white rat to a child to enjoy playing with. Later Watson began to give the rat to the child and at the same time make a very loud, unexpected noise. The child learned to fear the rat, & the fear generalized to all types of white furry objects. This experiment helped psychologists to understand phobias or irrational fears.
Little Albert Experiment
________ is a theorist who explored the application of classical conditioning in humans through his "Little Albert" experiment.
John Watson
________ is a carrot and a stick method of psychology. The person in authority offers a reward for conformity or punishment for misbehavior.
Watson's Behavioral Theory
__________ believed psychologists should only study what they can see and measure. Behavior can be explained with scientific accuracy.
John B. Watson
Who said: "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors."
John Watson
_________ is a Behavioral theorist who proposed Operant Conditioning and whose principles have been widely used in child discipline techniques for modifying undesirable behaviors.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904 - 1990)
________ states that behaviors are reinforced for pleasurable outcomes are likely to be repeated. Whereas undesirable behaviors result in unpleasant outcomes (penalty & punishment) or no reinforcement (extinction) are not likely to be repeated.
Operant Conditioning
_______ teaches the application of positive and negative behavior reinforcement. Skinner's therapy differs from Classical Conditioning in that no reflexive behavior is required. According to BF Skinner, learning occurs as a result of Conditioned Behavior.
Skinner's Operant Conditioning Theory
_________ is a researcher who extended behaviorist learning principles to a more precise science by attempting to quantify the relationships amount stimuli and responses.
Edward Lee "Ted" Thorndike (1874 – 1949)
_________ extended behaviorist learning principles to a more precise science by attempting to quantify the relationships among stimuli & responses. Two most basic types of intelligence: Stimulus-Response Learning and Trial & Error learning.
Thorndike Development Theory
The _________ was formulated by Thorndike (1905) which states that when a stimulus response connection is followed by a reward that connection is strengthened.
Behavioral Law of Effect
________ states "despite the program of the average elementary school are based on artificial exercises, like drills on phonetics, multiplication tables, and formal writing movements, are used to a wasteful degree. Subjects such as arithmetic, language, and history include content that is intrinsically of little value. Nearly every subject is enlarged unwisely to satisfy the academic ideal of thoroughness… Elimination of the unessentials by scientific study, then, is one step in improving the curriculum."
Thorndike Maturation Theory (1930)