CH 1AntecedentAn Event That Precedes Another
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Antecedent: An event that precedes another one. Respondent behaviors are responses to antecedent events.
Association: A connection or relation between two things, such as sense impressions, ideas, stimuli, or stimuli and responses.
Atomistic: Consisting or made up of many separate elements. The British empiricists were said to have an atomistic view of the mind because they believed that complex thoughts resulted from the accumulation of many different associations.
B. F. Skinner: (1904-1990) Influential 20th-century American psychologist who first promoted radical behaviorism and pioneered the operant experiment and the study of operant conditioning.
British Empiricists: British philosophers (including John Locke and David Hume) who proposed that the mind is built up from a person’s experiences.
Charles Darwin: (1809-1882) British biologist who proposed the theory of evolution in his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species.
Clark L. Hull: (1884-1952) An influential American learning theorist who presented an ambitious theory of learning and motivation that emphasized Drive and Habit.
Classical conditioning: The procedure in which an initially neutral stimulus (the conditional stimulus, or CS) is repeatedly paired with an unconditional stimulus (or US). The result is that the conditional stimulus begins to elicit a conditional response (CR). Nowadays, classical conditioning is important as both a behavioral phenomenon and as a method used to study simple associative learning.
Edward L. Thorndike: (1874-1949) American psychologist whose experiments with cats learning to get out of puzzle boxes profoundly influenced our thinking about the importance of instrumental conditioning and the central place of animal learning experiments in psychology.
Edward Tolman: (1886-1959) American psychologist whose ideas about the value and scientific validity of using intervening variables to explain behavior had a profound impact on all of scientific psychology. Tolman also ran
Antecedent: An event that precedes another one. Respondent behaviors are responses to antecedent events.
Association: A connection or relation between two things, such as sense impressions, ideas, stimuli, or stimuli and responses.
Atomistic: Consisting or made up of many separate elements. The British empiricists were said to have an atomistic view of the mind because they believed that complex thoughts resulted from the accumulation of many different associations.
B. F. Skinner: (1904-1990) Influential 20th-century American psychologist who first promoted radical behaviorism and pioneered the operant experiment and the study of operant conditioning.
British Empiricists: British philosophers (including John Locke and David Hume) who proposed that the mind is built up from a person’s experiences.
Charles Darwin: (1809-1882) British biologist who proposed the theory of evolution in his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species.
Clark L. Hull: (1884-1952) An influential American learning theorist who presented an ambitious theory of learning and motivation that emphasized Drive and Habit.
Classical conditioning: The procedure in which an initially neutral stimulus (the conditional stimulus, or CS) is repeatedly paired with an unconditional stimulus (or US). The result is that the conditional stimulus begins to elicit a conditional response (CR). Nowadays, classical conditioning is important as both a behavioral phenomenon and as a method used to study simple associative learning.
Edward L. Thorndike: (1874-1949) American psychologist whose experiments with cats learning to get out of puzzle boxes profoundly influenced our thinking about the importance of instrumental conditioning and the central place of animal learning experiments in psychology.
Edward Tolman: (1886-1959) American psychologist whose ideas about the value and scientific validity of using intervening variables to explain behavior had a profound impact on all of scientific psychology. Tolman also ran