TOP BF Skinner

• Edward Thorndike - first psychologist to study consequences of behavior
• Project Pigeon, Aircrib, skinners box, cumulative reorder - his inventions
• operant conditioning- type of learning which behaviors are entitled to earn rewards and avoid punishment
• instrumental learning - other term for operant conditioning
• Burrhus Frederic Skinner - full name of BF Skinner
• Classical Conditioning- a response is drawn out of the organism by specific stimulus
• operant conditioning- more likely to occur when immediately reinforced
• Skinnerian Conditioning - aka operant conditioning
• skinner box - A small enclosure in which an animal can make a specific response that is systematically recorded while the consequences of the response are controlled.
• Deborah - BF Skinner's daughter
• Reinforcement - process in which behavior is strengthened and thus more likely to happen again
• Punishment - process in which a behavior is weakened and thus less likely to happen again
• Negative reinforcement - taking away negative stimulus
• Negative Punishment- reducing behavior by removing pleasant stimulus
• Token economy-an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats
• Punishment-application of an aversive stimulus
• John Watson-with Edward who studied the law of effect
• Behavioral Theory-Theory of BF Skinner
• Pigeons-Animals BF trained to play ping pong
• Walden Two-his book about actual ideas on child rearing
• The behavior of organism-his first published book