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The quote that behaviorism "has substituted for the erstwhile anthropomorphic view of the rat, a ratomorphic view of man" implies that
behaviorism demeans our humanness with simple laws derived from rat studies.
One thing that learning theories have in common with Freud's approach is that they
are deterministic.
In the dogs that he worked with, Pavlov was able to classically condition something similar to which personality dimension?
neuroticism
According to Skinner, to maximize one's potential, one should
arrange his/her environment to reinforce productive behavior.
Approach-approach conflict is best described as what?
A person is equally driven towards two equally attractive choices.
Radical determinism states that
all behavior is caused by the environment.
After little Albert was conditioned to fear the rat, he
all of the above
According to Skinner, personality is result of what?
A set of conditioned responses to the environment
When a primary drive impels someone toward a behavior and a secondary drives impels the person away from that same behavior, __________ develops.
an approach-avoidance conflict
Who developed the concept of "operant conditioning"?
Skinner
When a person is faced with one of the three drive conflicts described by Dollard and Miller, the inability to satisfy these conflicts leads to
neurotic behavior.
In the following scenario, what is the conditioned stimulus? "Miles is an extremely smart dog. His owner always feeds him dog food from a can, which the owner opens using an electric can-opener. Whenever Miles hears the sound of the electric can opener, he runs into the kitchen and over to his food bowl."
the sound of the can opener
From the behaviorist perspective, the term "extinction" refers to
a "dying out" of a conditioned response when it is no longer paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
When a conditioned response occurs in response to a stimulus that is similar to the conditioned stimulus, this is called
generalization
Limits of the learning approach to understanding personality include
all of these