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Behaviorism has been believed to influence everyday life from parenting and learning to employee perks in organizations. It aims to study behavior and how it can be changed, it

Behaviorism is the scientific approach to psychology that is distinguished by logical-theoretical emphasis as is seeks to develop reasons for behavior (Moore, 2013). The theory of Behaviorism was developed by John B. Watson and B. F. Skinner. Uniquely, this theory states that personality is plastic and can be shaped by the environment or situational influences. Another difference from previous thoughts is

Behaviorism is one of the perspectives used to help get a better understanding of people. John B. Watson, an American psychologist, founded behaviorism while studying people. While others studied the conscious experience, Watson studied behavior. He switched the study of psychology

The primary ideology within behaviorism is the principle of stimulus and response, whereby an individual will respond to a stimulus (Cranton, 2014). In other words, individuals will respond either positively or negatively to a stimulus. In turn, they will learn from this based on positive or negative feedback. Positive feedback is seen as a reward, which reinforces the behavior, contributing to repetition of the behavior. Conversely, negative behavior may be ignored, or a form of punishment may be present. In this case, the behavior will cease (Cranton, 2014). The basis of this theory is that every individual desires positive reinforcement, and will avoid the negative (Spencer & Lange, 2013). Learning is observed through a change in behavior (Cranton,

“Behaviorism is predominantly concerned with evident and measurable aspects of human behavior. In defining behaviour, behaviourist-learning theories emphasise changes in behavior that result from stimulus-response links made by the learner. Behaviour is directed by stimuli. An individual selects one response instead

This quote ties in to our topic of discussion, psychologist or any researcher at that matter will always be questioning. This is how we have come to learn as much as we have today. The psychologist were always coming up with new ideas and concepts and challenging them until they figured out how behavior works. Behaviorism is a school of thought that was joined from no other than John B. Watson. Behaviorism is the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states. Behaviorism was a movement in psychology and philosophy that emphasized the outward behavioral aspects of thought and dismissed the inward experiential, and sometimes the inner procedural, aspects as well; a movement harking back to the methodological proposals of John B. Watson, who coined the name. There are a couple of main components within behaviorism, operant and classical conditioning.

Behaviorism is a theory mostly developed by B.F. Skinner. Three basic assumptions are held to be true. Learning is manifested by the change in behavior, the environment shapes behavior and the reinforcement essential in explaining the process of learning. For behaviorism learning

Behaviorism is a school of thought in psychology based on the assumption that learning occurs through interactions with the environment. Two other assumptions of this theory are that the environment shapes behavior and that taking internal mental states such as thoughts, feelings and emotions into consideration is useless in explaining behavior.

One of the major challenges to behaviorism came from studies on observational learning conducted by Albert Bandura and colleagues. (Schunk, 2012) In contrast to Skinner Bandura’s social cognitive theory states people learn new actions merely by observing others perform them. Observers did not have to perform the actions at the time of learning. (Schunk, 2012)

In today’s workplace the method of training employees has been dramatically impacted by budget cuts, downsizing and the overall decline in the economy. This in turn has required employers to devise new training practices; to become innovative with learning strategies and methodologies. The challenge to provide an atmosphere that promotes professional development has led to new formats for sharing knowledge and training.

Behaviorism takes on many forms, B.F. Skinner liked to call his form of behaviorism Operant Conditioning. He would rather study observable behavior rather than internal mental events. He felt that was the best way to see how one may react to a particular stimuli and how one would handle the situation. Skinner believed that if a behavior is reinforced the behavior will continue. This had a two sided effect. If the bad behavior was reinforced the bad behavior would continue. Such as the good behavior, if it is reinforced and rewarded, the good behavior will continue. Albert Bandura is another theorist that I find interesting and directly related to my area of study. Unlike Skinner, he believed that people learned by watching others. His theory and Skinners theories are different but work together, you could not have operant conditioning unless you have cognitive process.

The term behaviorism refers to the school of psychology founded by John B. Watson. Behaviorism theory is based on the idea that behaviors can be measured, trained, and changed. In D. A. Lieberman’s book Psychology of learning (2012, Ch. 2.3), he states, “Watson believed that psychologists should be concerned with overt behavior rather than the hidden processes of the mind, and he argued for a greater concern with practical applications”. This this theory believes that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning. Behaviorism attempts to measure through observation of behavior, using the observations to control behavior through conditioning.

Behaviorism is everything that we can directly observe. According to the text on page 308, "For the behaviorist, behavior is everything that we do, both verbal or nonverbal, that can be directly seen or heard." The learner starts off as a clean sheet of paper through positive or negative reinforcement behavior is shaped. In contradiction, punishment positive or negative decreases the probability that the previous behavior will happen again. Behaviorism is for beginner developing mind who is starting to learn something new, or for training a pet. For example, as I recently started learning bicycle riding; as a beginner, I was told to sit on the bike while my instructor who happened to be my husband hold the bike from behind, as I push down on the pedals with my feet to move the bike. At this point, balancing is an important part of riding the bike as I started to

Behaviorism is the observing and studying of the external behavior of a living being, and behavior is

Behaviorism is founded in the premise of behaviors that can be described scientifically using facets of philosophy and methodology but also suggesting that theory and not physiological constraints explain the behaviors of humanity. Moore suggests that radical behaviorism is not biological but philosophical in its origin. Moore also contends that virtually all American psychologists are now at least in part, behavioral psychologists (Moore, 2011). Therefore, despite my own tendencies to believe otherwise, perhaps my nature is at least in part defined by behaviorist theory. Behaviorism should be an objective science that studies behavior