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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...

4 Approaches to Counseling

In eight pages the pastoral counseling of Charles Gerkin, the cognitive counseling of Frances Egan, the affective counseling of Ca...

Functional and Behavioral Approaches to Juvenile Delinquency

as functionalism also felt that "criminality is not a quality inherent in an act or a person but rather a phenomenon defined by a ...

Learning Disabilities and Cooperative Learning

gone beyond Deweys premises (Brufee, 1995). In the current processes used in cooperative classrooms, students work in small groups...

Personality and Psychological Theory

In twenty two pages this paper examines the psychological theories of Freud, Jung, Horney, Adler, Bandura, Rogers, May, and Skinne...

Psychological Indeterminism and Determinism

science, man used to think himself a free agent possessing free will. Science gives us, instead, causal determinism wherein every...

Major Theories of Personality

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

Responses to Quotes

This 4 page paper gives an explanation of four different quotes. This paper includes quotes by Epictetus, B.F. Skinner, Mahatma Ga...

Three Major Behaviorists

infant and child. Watson gave Albert one of the lab rats which elicited a play response from Albert. While playing with the rat, W...

Was Washoe Cognitive and What is Hard Science?

the requirement of awareness. When deaf children learn signing from a young age it may be argued that at first the process is beha...

The Views of Tolman Compared to Watson and Skinner

by Watson. Watson integrated an experimental focus on showing the connection between stimuli and conditioned behaviors. Watso...

Child Development

of cognitive development. He identified four stages of growth that he believed were sequential and invariant. Michael fits into Pi...

Comparison of Leadership Styles Observed at RyanAir and McDonalds

and OLeary with a practical ole of making changes it is unsurprising he was unpopular and adopted an autocratic style of leadershi...

Psychodynamic Behaviorist Humanistic Social-Cognitive

id, ego, and superego. The id is about the base desires of the human, the superego acts like a conscious striving for the highest ...

How Can We Ever Understand our Persoanality

The term, personality, is difficult to define because different theorists define it in different ways. Allport, for example, belie...

Operant Conditiioning in Learning

Skinner believed that we are what we do and he also believed that we can change what we do for the better. The key to his theory a...

Programmed Instruction and B.F. Skinner

In a paper consisting of eighteen pages programmed instruction's history is examined and then an integration with the behaviorism ...

A Review of Reagan in His Own Hand

A 5 page review of the book complied from Ronald Reagan's own writings by Kiron K. Skinner. Reagan's propensity for writing down ...

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...

An Explanation and Possible Solutions Regarding a Seven Year Old Child's Antisocial and Aggressive Behavior

(Papert, 1999, p. 104+) - believed that children are not merely a collection of empty vessels waiting for information to fill the ...

Business Uses of Psychology

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

Theoretical Approach and Biography

kind regard for those things that were based solely within the theoretical approach of superstition or folly. Why would people wa...

Life and Work of B.F. Skinner

conditioning is one of the simplest, but most profound discoveries concerning human behavior and the behavior of animals as well. ...

Operant Conditioning, B.F. Skinner, and Criminal Behavior

pigeons to coin the now infamous term "operant conditioning" to describe the phenomenon of learning occurring in response to an or...

Dreams from a Psychological Perspective

researchers investigating REM sleep report an interaction of the anterior cingulate cortex, amygdaloid complexes and posterior are...

Developmental Psychology: Theories

who is considered one of the ten leading educators in American history for setting a significant precedence with regard to human b...

Organizational Behavior And Development

of concern for completing the task versus the degree of concern for people and relationships. Hersey and Blanchard (1996) argued t...

Social Engineering and the Law

logical of those options revolve around positive and negative reinforcement. Skinner contended that an organisms behavior was the...

Personal Case Study of Personality

a very early age. Five years later at age 22, some of these things have changed but not all. I came to realize that the reason I...

Learning Perspectives

functional literacy in the workplace. The learning process, then, is conscious and applicable, and can be understood relative to ...