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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...

B.F. Skinner's Analysis of Freedom

provides information on birth control and abortion. In some way, the government is providing reinforcement to the choice of not ha...

B.F. Skinner's Contributions

Law of Effect. In the Law of Effect positive effects serve to strengthen the stimulus/response connection while negative effects ...

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...

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...

Skinner's Operant Conditioning

sound of the food dropping and will begin to go to the tray as soon as it hears that sound (Skinner, n.d.). A small lever is next ...

Walden Two, A Behaviorist Utopia

A 12 page research paper/essay that, first of all, discusses behaviorism, what it is and how it started and then moves on to discu...

Issues in Psychology Education

This research paper pertains to five separate topics, which are: heredity vs. environment, in regards to development; policy for i...

Operant Conditioning Theory

but not parallel to Pavlovs (2003) conjecture. An empty, soundproof container sits with nothing in sight but a dish and a lever. ...

Behavior Conditioning and B.F. Skinner

In eight pages Skinner's assumptions regarding the scientific method and his human behavioral applications of them are examined an...

The 'Science' of Human Behavior According to B.F. Skinner

or punish it. If a given behavior results in an effect that the organism likes, this behavior will be repeated. If the effect is ...

The Life and Works of Psychologist B.F. Skinner

independent thinker as well as an individual who was perhaps rebellious against the "norm." One author notes that this became quit...

A Walden Two Reaction

they need to live. A lot of attention has been paid to this concept as much war and discrepancies are precipitated on the fact tha...

Food Preferences and the Theories of B.F. Skinner

the way (Psychology.org, 2003). Another aspect of Skinners theory was that of "chaining," in other words, the fact that te...

Theories of Personality by B.F. Skinner and Sigmund Freud

In ten pages this paper examines the personality developmental impact of heredity or biology in a consideration of these theorists...

Piaget, Vygotsky, Skinner and Their Developmental Theories

all objects with the same shape together regardless of their color (Atherton, 2005). The third stage is the "concrete operational...

Skinner, Piaget And Vygotsky : Developmental Theories

existing cognitive structure (Ginn, 2009). Accommodation is the process of changing existing cognitive structures to accept then n...

Sally Godfrey and Mr. B's Roles in Pamela by Samuel Richardson

In five pages this paper examines the story value added by Sally and Mr. B in an analysis of Samuel Richardson's Pamela. One sour...

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...

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...

A Psychological Profile of Madonna

This paper examines various aspects of the life, personality, and behaviors of the pop star Madonna. The author utilizes the psyc...

Comparison of Gestalt and Behaviorism

(1969 as Overskeid, 1995) states: "Behavior which is exclusively shaped by ... contingencies is perhaps the closest one can come t...

Theorists and Theories on Nurture or Nature

extreme emphasis on the environmental determinant of development. Locke described parents as rational tutors who could mold the ch...

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 ...

Dreams from a Psychological Perspective

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

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...

A Psychoanalytical Theory and Theorist Overview

advent, Freuds work represented an innovative approach to the problems which had plagued mankind practically since the beginning o...

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...

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...