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Human Learning According to Jean Piaget and B.F. Skinner

Human learning is examined in a contrasting and comparison of Piaget's and Skinner's theories in this paper consisting of 6 pages....

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 ...

Acquisison of Language and B.F. Skinner's Operant Behavioral Theory

In a paper consisting of five pages B.F. Skinner's major arguments regarding verbal behavior are examined in terms of their implic...

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...

Skinner and Erikson Theories of Personality

- 35: Intimacy versus isolation. Form intimate relationships. 7. Middle age, ages 35 - 60: Generativity versus stagnation. Goes be...

The role of emotion and cognition in the development of consciousness.

This paper looks at the part played by emotion and cognition in the way we develop consciousness. Psychologists such as Ellis have...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Euclid of Alexandria; The Elements

Elements, to which he replied that there was no royal road to geometry. He is therefore younger than Platos circle, but older than...

Life and Career of Psychologist Hugo Munsterberg

to ideas which differed from his own. He clinged tightly, however, to two basic psychological principles:...

Life of English Essayist Charles Lamb

at Blakesware in Lambs mothers native county of Hertford (Ward and Waller, 2002). The business of London contrasted greatly with ...

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...

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...

Life and Contributions of B.F. Skinner

the head of behavioristic psychology. It is a scientific approach. In Skinners view, it is not individual decision-making that s...

Psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus

In seven pages this research paper considers the life and accomplishments of this modern psychologist. Six sources are cited in t...

A Profile of Serial Killer Ted Bundy

groomed, well mannered and looked rather ordinary. Lewis (1998) examines a variety of murderers, one of whom is in fact Ted Bundy...

Howard Gardner and Multiple Intelligences

time on the MACOS Project with Jerome Bruner, then went back to Harvard for his doctorate in 1966, completing his degree in 1971 (...

Behaviorist Model

frequency of the behavior; the fixed-interval schedule provides reinforcement after a certain amount of time as long as the person...

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...

CRITIQUE OF A CHILD PROTECTION ARTICLE STUDY

A critique on an article concerning a study about child protection work and clinical psychologists in Scotland. There are 6 source...

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...

Life and Times of Vlad Tepes, the Original Dracula

out of the hands of Vlad the III. (Vlad 1996) Vlad III eventually did manage to regain the thrown of Walachia by conspiring with...

What Adler Would Say About Allport

increasingly to the concept of social interest" (Boeree, 1997). "He felt that if humanity was to survive it had to change its way...

Homosexuality in the Male From a Clinical Perspective

characteristic. Subsequent psychological researchers and theorists were then able to elaborate on such factors in order to determi...

Daily Lives and Work's Role

Does this job provide you with sufficient income and the opportunity for advancement? As a retail manager I have almost reached ...

Ernest Gaines/Centrality of Racism in His Work

school children to the workplace, from the entertainment industry to the sports world, racial stereotypes are an integral part of ...

Public Life versus Private Life in The Aeneid, The Odyssey, and Oresteia

In four pages this paper compares and contrasts how the authors depict private life and public life in these ancient literary work...

The life and work of Charlotte Gilman

A paper which discusses the life, work and theories of the writer Charlotte Gilman, and looks specifically at the role of feminism...