Behaviourism Responding to our enviornment. 3.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? AllUniversityNone Created by: jessicalucyCreated on: 10-04-13 22:01 Published 'The Expression of the Emotions in Men and Animals', arguing that behaviours are evolutionary adaptations (1872) Charles Darwin 1 of 16 His 'Law of Effect' states that responses which produce satisfying effects are more likely to be repeated (1898) Edward Thorndike 2 of 16 Published 'Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It', which became the unofficial behaviourist manifesto (1913) John B. Watson 3 of 16 Experimented on 'Little Albert', teaching the baby a conditioned emotional response (1920) John B. Watson 4 of 16 Demonstrated classical conditioning in his experiments on dogs (1927) Ivan Pavlov 5 of 16 Experiments in brain dissection show that the whole brain is involved in learning (1929) Karl Lashley 6 of 16 Experiments with cats and rats attempt to show that there is no such thing as instinct (1930) Zing-Yang Kuo 7 of 16 Demonstrated the effects of 'operant conditioning' in experiments on rats (1930) B.F. Skinner 8 of 16 Discovered the phenomenon of imprinting, where baby animals assume a parent because of sensory information received at a critical time (1935) Konrad Lorenz 9 of 16 Suggested that 'single-trial learning' is adequate; conditioning need not rely on repetition (1938) Edwin Guthrie 10 of 16 Stated that drive reduction (satisfying our basic human needs) is the only true basis of reinforcement (1943) Clark L. Hull 11 of 16 'Cognitive Maps in Rats and Men' suggested that we develop cognitive maps while we go about our daily lives (1948) Edward Tolman 12 of 16 Published 'Verbal Behavior', in which he claims that speech is a product of past behavioural and genetic history (1957) B.F. Skinner 13 of 16 Conducted desensitization techniques on war veterans suffering from 'war neurosis' (1958) Joseph Wolpe 14 of 16 Wrote a critical review of 'Verbal Behaviour' that helped spark the cognitive revolution (1959) Noam Chomsky 15 of 16 Experiments lead to the discovery of biofeedback techniques (1960s) Neal Miller 16 of 16
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