Behaviorism and Challenges to Behaviorism
Behaviorism and Challenges to Behaviorism
This lecture covers the history of behaviorism and the ultimate challenge to behaviorism.
Topics covered in this lesson
- The argument for studying animals in order to study human psychology
- Romanes' three causes of behavior
- Thorndike's puzzle boxes & learning curves
- Watson's experiments on infants
- Skinner's Empty Organism approach
- Tolman's critique of the Empty Organism
- Hull's active goal-oriented learner theory
- Rescorla and Wagner's laws of associative competition
Documents
Compendium
(5.84 MB)
Reading Materials - Thorndike
(499.47 KB)
Reading Materials - Tolman
(1.22 MB)
Reading Materials - O'Keefe
(855.71 KB)
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