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Discuss the contributions of E. L. Thorndike and J. B. Watson to Skinner's learning theory.
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During the 1920s and 1930s, while Freud, Adler, and Jung were relying on clinical practice and before Eysenck and McCrae and Costa were using psychometric procedures to build personality theories, a number of behaviorists were constructing models based on laboratory studies of human and nonhuman animals. Early behaviorists included E. L. Thorndike and J. B. Watson, but the most influential of the later theorists was B. F. Skinner. Behavioral models of personality avoided speculations about hypothetical constructs and concentrated almost exclusively on observable behavior. Skinner rejected the notion of free will and emphasized the primacy of environmental influences on behavior. |
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Explain Skinner's philosophy of science
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Because the purpose of science is to predict and control, Skinner argued that psychologists should be concerned with determining the conditions under which human behavior occurs. By discovering these conditions, psychologists can predict and control human behavior.
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