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Skinner’s Behaviourism
Conditioning Shaping BehaviourBehaviour Modification
Positive ReinforcementToken Economy
Extinction
ApproximationsLearning
Reinforcements
Environment
Operant
Who was Skinner?
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• American Psychologist
• Operant Conditioning
• Of the first to describe radical behaviourism
• Founded school of experimental analysis of behaviour
• Prolific author who published over 20 books
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What is Behaviourism?
Objective study of behaviour
Learning as a function of change
Personal responses to environment
Rewarded responses= Conditioning
Reinforcements
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Principles of Behaviourism
Behaviour that is positively reinforced will reoccur.
Information should be presented in small amounts so that responses can be shaped and reinforced.
Reinforcements will generalize across similar stimuli and stimulus generalization.
Classical Conditioning
Pavlov’s Dog
Operant Conditioning
Behaviour Modification
Behaviour can stem from previous reinforcement history.
Believed freedom and dignity to be unobservable and useless for a scientific purpose.
Skinner’s Beliefs & Goals
Shape patients behaviour so that they would behave in socially acceptable ways.ABC’s of Behavioural LearningSkinner believed that we could get organisms to perform the most complex of behaviours.
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Skinner’s Work
Work with rats and pigeons
Skinner Box
Skinner Box Pigeon Video
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Skinner’s Toolbox
Behaviourist strategies advocated and utilized by Skinner:
Operant Conditioning: Behaviour ModificationPositive Reinforcement
Extinction Schedules of Reinforcement
Token Economy Approximations of desired behaviour
Why Sara is failing in school
Failure to provide positive reinforcement for good behaviour.
Information and instruction not presented in small, manageable chunks.
Teacher fails to reward approximations
Failure to look at antecedants and consequences of behaviour
Behaviourist Solutions and Tools for Sara’s Success
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Reward approximations of desired behaviour
Behaviourist Solutions and Tools for Sara’s Success
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Token Economy
Behaviourist Solutions and Tools for Sara’s Success
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Positive Reinforcement
Behaviourist Solutions and Tools for Sara’s Success
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Internalized Self
Reinforcement
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