Experimental analysis of behavior

Skinner developed the theory of operant conditioning. The main concepts of this theory was known as behavior is controlled by different consequences. For example, operant conditioning is known as a form of behavior which can be determined when it comes to a series of consequences. When a person reacts or behaves a certain way, consequences such as punishments or reinforcements will occur. Behavior may be more or less common to reoccur again. “Skinner 's point of views about operant conditioning…

Introduction Behavior is generally both physical and psychological response towards stimuli. It encompasses organism’s observable physical movements and internal psychological process, summing up to how an organism responds with the environment. Sniffy experiment seeks to demonstrate how the virtual rat responds to tone and shock variation. It is possible to measure organism behavior using one or more parameters, including duration, intensity, and frequency. While experimentation is a better…

empathy toward a passing of their own. Rifkin emphasizes this by taking a look at how, “Elephants will often stand next to their dead kin for days, occasionally touching their bodies with their trunks.” Rifkin also mentions, “Studies on pigs’ social behavior funded by McDonald at Purdue University, for example, have found that they crave affection and are easily depressed if isolated or denied playtime with each other.” This tells us animals do feel emotions, showing they have feelings.…

Kyle Horne April 1 2016 1001 Khorne Do Pigeons Already Generalize, or did they Just Want Food? Summary An experiment was performed in order to test role of concept learning in pigeons. This experiment used contextual cueing, a non differential reinforcement procedure that involves low-level supervision, to test concept learning in pigeons, rather than a differential reinforcement procedure, which involves high-level supervision.The experiment involved pigeons pecking at a target stimulus when…

abnormal behavior is not due to any psychoanalytical or biological cause, rather they are formed based on a person’s history of conditioning. Through my studies I have found that behaviors that bring about positive consequences have a greater likelihood of being repeated than behaviors that bring about negative consequences. This is known as operant conditioning, the shaping of behaviors by providing rewards to reinforce desired behaviors and providing punishment for undesired behaviors. This…

Thorndike’s law of effect states that rewarded behaviors will be repeated and punished behaviors will decrease. Mrs. Jones can use the law of effect to get her students to behave well. If the students follow directions, she can offer them candy to get them to keep up the behavior. Also, she can punish her students for misbehaving by assigning them to a silent lunch. The candy will give them an incentive to behave properly while the silent lunches will get them to stop misbehaving. Classical…

B.F Skinner would agree with the quote “It’s simple. You read books—to learn facts—to get grades—to pass the course—to get a degree. It has nothing to do with thoughts.” by Lorraine Hansberry. Skinner pioneered the idea that humans could simply be reacting to life instead of actually learning as they move through time. He would support the idea that humans are conditioned to go through life in a certain way, and that little development occurs when people are forced into repetitive habits.…

Author of the utopian novel, Walden Two (1948), Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born on March 20th, of 1904 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. Skinner can also be described as the creator of the behaviorist theory of psychology. B.F. was born to a father occupied as a lawyer and a mother who did not work but stayed at home to tend to Skinner’s needs. Skinner had an early interest in building and inventing gadgets which later on in his life plays a minor role in his success. On the path of education,…

Jaida Marks Mrs. Pangaio Honors Anatomy and Physiology 3 September 2015 Shivering when you get cold or sweating when you are hot, are both very common examples of your body trying to maintain homeostasis. Homeostasis is the ability of your body to maintain stable internal conditions when faced with environmental changes. Sometimes there can be a stimulus in the environment that will cause changes to an organism's stable internal conditions. This results in the organism responding using…

Conditioning as changes in behavior to be determined by an individual's response to events (stimuli) in a given environment. The actions of an individual is called a response, and when a desired stimulus response is reinforced the individual may respond in a certain way. In Operant Conditioning there are two different types of reinforcement, positive and negative. Positive Reinforcement (reward) involves presenting a motivating object/item to a person after the desired behavior is given, such as…