Personality
Sixth edition
Chapter 6
Behaviorist and Learning
Aspects of Personality
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Modules
Introduction: Behaviorist and Learning Aspects of Personality
6.1: The Classical Conditioning of Personality
6.2: Watson's Behaviorism
6.3: The Radical Behaviorism of B. F. Skinner
6.4: Applying Behaviorism
6.5: Other Learning Approaches to Personality
6.6: Evaluation
Conclusion: Behaviorist and Learning Aspects of Personality
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Learning Objectives (1 of 2)
6.1: Interpret the classical conditioning approach of personality
6.2: Examine the genesis of behaviorism
6.3: Interpret B. F. Skinner's behaviorist approach
6.4: Apply behaviorism to explain personality differences
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Learning Objectives (2 of 2)
6.5: Probe the work done by some of the other experimental psychologists of the 1930s
and 1940s
6.6: Evaluate how theories on conditioning, reward, and extinction are relevant in current
studies of personality
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Introduction: Behaviorist and Learning Aspects of Personality
− Uniqueness of behaviorist approaches
− Behaviorism
− Partial reinforcement
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6.1: The Classical Conditioning of Personality
Objective: Interpret the classical conditioning approach of personality
Locke’s views on infants
Comparison of Locke’s approach to personality
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6.1.1: Conditioning a Response to a Stimulus
− Classical conditioning
− Pavlov’s observations
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6.1.2: Behavioral Patterns as a Result of Conditioning
− Behavioral reaction patterns
− Pavlov’s constructs
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6.1.3: Extinction Processes
− Extinction
− Outcome
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6.1.4: Conditioning of Neurotic Behavior
− Neuroticism
− Pavlov
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6.1.5: Complexities in Application of Conditioning Principles
− Complexities
− Classical conditioning
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6.2: Watson's Behaviorism
Objective: Examine the genesis of behaviorism
Behaviorist approaches philosophers
Limitations of subject analyses
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6.2.1: The Rejection of Introspection
− Behaviorism
− Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist
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6.2.2: Conditioned Fear and Systematic Desensitization
− Little Albert’s conditioned fear
− Systematic desensitization
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6.3: The Radical Behaviorism of B. F. Skinner
Objective: Interpret B. F. Skinner's behaviorist approach
B. F. Skinner
Factors responsible for behavior
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6.3.1: Operant Conditioning as an Alternative Description of Personality
− Operant conditioning
− Skinner’s rejections
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6.3.2: Controlling the Reinforcement
− Skinner box
− Process
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6.3.3: Skinner’s Behaviorist Utopia
− Walden Two
− Skinner’s proposed society
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6.4: Applying Behaviorism
Objective: Apply behaviorism to explain personality differences
Role of biological factors
Role of environment in hereditary characteristics
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6.4.1: Internal Processes, External Causation, and Free Will
− Characteristics of organisms
− Similarities between Freud and Skinner
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6.5: Other Learning Approaches to Personality
Objective: Probe the work done by some of the other experimental psychologists of the 1930s and 1940s
Experimental psychologists’ beliefs in 1930s and 1940s
Internal characteristics of organisms
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6.5.1: The Role of Internal Drives
− Clark Hull’s emphases
− Primary drives of organisms
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6.5.2: Social Learning Theory
− Neil Miller’s research
− Dollard’s and Miller’s study of personality
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6.5.3: Habit Hierarchies
− Concept of secondary drive
− Harlow’s studies on rhesus monkeys
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6.5.4: Drive Conflict
− Conflicts between primary and secondary drives
− Frustration-aggression hypothesis
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