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B. F. Skinner introduced the idea of to the paradigm of...

Key Concepts

Behaviorism

Behaviorism is a school of psychology that focuses on studying observable and measurable aspects of human and animal behavior rather than internal mental states. It emphasizes the importance of environmental factors and learned associations in shaping behavior, often using controlled experiments to understand stimulus-response relationships.

Reinforcement

Reinforcement is a core concept in behaviorism, particularly within the framework of operant conditioning introduced by B. F. Skinner. It refers to any consequence that strengthens or increases the frequency of a behavior, and can be positive (adding a rewarding stimulus) or negative (removing an aversive stimulus), thereby influencing future behavior modification.

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00:01 Let's talk about b .f.

00:03 Skinner.

00:04 He's actually one of my very favorite psychologists.

00:07 I took an animal behavior class, and i learned so much about b .f.

00:11 Skinner, so i recommend that if you are interested in his type of science, you read some of the things that he wrote while he was still alive and doing a lot of psychology.

00:21 So, really, he was big in behaviorism, and we want to figure out what was one of his main contributions to the field.

00:34 So let's just throw out a couple options about things that he could have done and then walk through them step by step.

00:41 So unconscious thinking maybe, could he have maybe done reinforcement, different things he could have done as conditioning, defense mechanisms, or introspection.

01:13 So let's think about what we know about skinner and then walk through these step by step.

01:18 So b .f.

01:19 Skinner.

01:20 We know he was a behaviorist, right? so let's think about things that have to do with behaviorism for the first part.

01:28 So what about introspection? well, if you remember, behaviorism specifically is only about things that are objective.

01:37 So just things we can see.

01:41 So introspection would probably be not on that list.

01:46 Thinking about things that are introspection, similarly, things like unconscious thinking, this is also something that we can't actually measure.

01:57 And someone doesn't know that it's happening.

01:58 How do we as a scientist know that it's happening? so probably not that one either.

02:04 In the same line of that, defense mechanisms.

02:07 So defense mechanisms, we actually have to know, in order to know a defense mechanism is, we have to know what somebody actually believes about something versus how they behave.

02:16 Again, this is a really difficult thing to study.

02:19 So b .f.

02:21 Skinner didn't really do that.

02:22 This leaves us two answers that could be the answer, right? so conditioning and reinforcement.

02:28 If we remember what b .f skinner did, he was really, really influenced by somebody named ivan pavlov...

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