Questions tagged [behaviorism]
A school of thought that maintains that behaviors can be described scientifically without recourse either to internal physiological events or to hypothetical constructs such as the mind.
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Question about stimulus-response assocation theories
I am currently reading a review called "Behaviorism, Latent Learning, and Cognitive Maps:
Needed Revisions in Introductory Psychology Textbooks". In the review, the author writes:
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Understanding fear as a response in classical conditioning
I have difficulties to understand fear as a response to a stimuli. In my view fear occurs as a anticipation of a possible threat in the (nearby) future. Fear prepares the organism so that it can react ...
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What is the study examining biological sex differences in determination where babies pulled on a string to generate a response?
I'm looking for the study that describes this experiment. I saw it demonstrated in a documentary, but I can't remember the name of it.
In the experiment, biological males and females were put in a ...
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What differences are between behavioralism and functionalism?
Is it correct that behavioralism and functionalism are similar in that they both treat brain or something else as a blackbox, and are only concerned about the relationships between inputs and outputs ...
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ABC Model of Behaviour: What is an antecedent?
In the context of the three-term contigency what is meant by an antecedent and are there two types of antecendent - stimulus delta and stimulus discriminative? Why is it called the three-term ...
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Does intention matter for positive reinforcement?
What makes something positive reinforcement: The intention or the outcome? I have two examples I'm trying to understand.
First, if I am teaching my dog a trick and I give her a treat whenever I say &...
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Why scammers curse when you politely expose them [closed]
My experience with (online / email / phone) scammers is that they always curse at the end of the following situation:
A scammer contacts you,
you engage briefly in polite and sincere manner,
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Is hand-writing analysis used for analysis of a person's behaviour or anlayzing a person's character?
Does the handwriting analysis of a person predict only his/her behavior or only his/her character or both?
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Is the current approach to AI learning essentially behaviourism?
AI, to the level that we attempt to create it these days, involves creating neural networks that learn from stimulus (experience, data) and reinforcement. A higher score such as in a Go game, or a ...
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How does goal-tracking and sign-tracking behaviour vary across species?
In Pavlonian (classical) conditioning, conditioned responses of an animal may vary. Some animals focus on the unconditioned stimulus (ie. food/location of food) while others may focus on the ...
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Why does smiling indicate happiness? Why couldn’t frowning indicate happiness and smiling indicate sadness?
Is there an evolutionary reason behind this? What about raising eyebrows when surprised, or lowering them when angry?
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What Classical Conditioning says about multiple or multimodal stimuli?
I would like to know if classical conditioning somehow predicts/approaches scenarios where multiple or multimodal stimuli associate with a response. I do not have much knowledge on the topic, but it ...
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Does the "learned" in "learned helplessness" refer specifically to behaviorism's conditioning?
I was said that because the experiment of Seligman that gave birth the theory of learned helplessness was an expansion of Pavlov's experiment, hence the word "learned" in the term should be ...
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What does this sentence of Richard Herrnstein regarding learned helplessness theory mean?
In Maier, S. F., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2016), Learned Helplessness at Fifty: Insights from Neuroscience, the authors quote an objection of Richard Herrnstein, a prominent Harvard Skinnerian (...
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What's a simple definition for reactive attachment disorder?
I read an article on Reactive Attachment Disorder.
Here's what I know so far
Reactive means to react in response to something. Action = reaction.
Attachment is the act of bonding or connecting with ...
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Is there a relationship between viewing and committing war crimes
Recently, I’ve been curious if there’s any relationship between someone committing war crimes and previously viewing them.
For example, the War in Afghanistan is considered asymmetrical warfare, where ...
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In the behaviorism it is argued that we learn behavior, but (how) does this influence our way of thinking?
I'm currently learning psychological approaches and social psychology, and this question popped into my head. The book on the approaches is: Glassman, W., Hadad, M. (20130116). Approaches to ...
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Why is the shoemaker badly shod?
In other words, why are professionals/experts good at doing what they know to do for others but not for themselves ?
What is the psychological bias behind this ?
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What is the difference between conditioning and learning?
The more I think about the difference between learning and Pavlovian conditioning, the more I'm unable to see how they differ. Even though in theory associative learning is just a portion of learning.
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Is there a name for this feeling?
With the intent of being seen as a big shot, a person induces unsuspecting observers to underestimate them by intentionally failing in trivial tasks but then successfully completing more complex tasks....
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What is the meaning of Trump's 'thumb-and-index-pinch' when he speaks?
When Donald Trump speaks in front of a crowd, he often puts his hand at shoulder level, usually far from it, and lets his palm face the crowd and pinches his thumb and index together while either ...
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I am looking for the name of a phenomenon where people blindly follow others when they sense a threat
So I am composing a post and I am looking for a name of the behaviour among people that they start running when they see two or more people running in opposite direction sensing a potential threat or ...
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Are behaviourist practices and/or principles still valid and useful?
I understand how behaviorism is outdated for not considering the brain processes and cognition as ultimately responsible for memory and learning.
Nevertheless, after reading Learning Theories: An ...
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Is there a protocol to cluster observed behaviour data? [closed]
I have observed a number of users in 3 public parks during the course of 2 months and have identified 60 different types of uses. I can't find a protocol to classify similar uses (not users) into ...
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Do we still not know whether violent video games negatively affect players?
As per the answer to the 2018 question on this site about the same topic, we did not know whether there was a causal link between exposure to violent video games and aggressive behavior because the ...
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Effectiveness of aversion therapy for procrastination
Pavlok is a product which is essentially a shock bracelet for Aversion Therapy. It markets itself as an intervention for a range of habits, including procrastination and nail-biting.
Is there any ...
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What is the meaning of behaviorally oriented outside-in nature of therapy?
What is the meaning of behaviorally oriented outside-in nature of therapy? I am especially interested why this outside-in word was used but please provide me a wider context of this type of therapy. ...
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Punishment v.s Negative Reinforcement
Consider the following scenario:
Every time I do the groceries with my son he constantly asks for a packet of lollies. I find this constant asking for lollies very annoying, so I always end up ...
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Sadistic personality disorder, psychopathy and correlation with violence
Going through some article, it seems the differences between the descriptions for sadistic personality disorder and psychopathy is minimal, if at all existent. In the first article it appears the ...
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What happened to self-administered aversion therapy (with a rubber band in particular)?
In the 1970s a great new use for the rubber band was discovered: self-administered aversion therapy. It didn't go so well in some cases, like for "obsessoinal thinking", the outcome being the opposite ...
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What is the medical term for semi-mindless activities to help reduce anxiety? ... such as gardening, mowing, cleaning... perhaps driving
What is the medical term for semi-mindless activities to help reduce anxiety? ... such as gardening, mowing, cleaning... perhaps driving.
I recall that, maybe, the word asynchronous was part of the ...
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Is there any significance to the way Trump spreads his hand from each other?
Is there any significance on how President Trump constantly spreads apart from each other his hands while talking? I postulate that this falls under some sort of sub-conscious (or conscious) body ...
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Are reaction time and memory physiological measure or behavioral observation?
I think that the choice made by a subject in a choice task should be behavioral observation. But I am not sure about reaction time and memory, which is more about ability instead of intention.
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Is it possible to effect both positive and negative reinforcement through the same action?
Consider the following scenario: a rhesus monkey is being put under severe duress somehow (isolation, sense of physical threat, whathaveyou). It is desired that a behavior, like pressing a lever, is ...
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In a class room setting, why do people look at you when you are asking a question?
Picture this scenario:
You are a student enrolled in a large class
You arrived slightly late to the class, so you are sitting at the back of the class
You raise your hands to ask the teacher a ...
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What is the fastest way to make an intermittent reinforced behavior become extinct?
Let's suppose I trained my dog to touch a button and win a prize in random sequences.
Now I want to make this behavior become extinct.
What is the fastest way:
Not allow my dog to see the button ...
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Do we understand the non-subjective mechanisms behind pleasure and pain?
If we are to view pleasure and pain as being essentially synonymous with the more mechanistic concept of reward and punishment (i.e. as a part of learning and motivation system) then do we understand ...
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Need to define observation/phenomenon in order to study it, same replies to same political topics, different individuals
I was wondering if anyone could help me define my observation, in order to read some literature on the subject. I have some Cog. Psych. background but have never encountered this during my studies. It ...
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Conditioning and Contingency
I've learned, that spatiotemporal neighborhood among the conditioned and the unconditioned stimuli is a presupposition of conditioning (classical or operant). A second presupposition is called "...
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Can you get addicted from using topical or local anaesthetics to ease pain?
I've been wondering if there was such a thing as developing some kind of physical or psychological dependence on things that relieve pain. While we often hear about opioid addiction, which is ...
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Do violent videos and video games affect your behaviour?
So I've heard many people say watching violent videos affect your behaviour. But I myself don't observe any change in me.
So does it truly affect anyone and if yes how exactly?
Some of the sites ...
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Is Behaviorism a type of Functionalism?
Behaviorism separates itself from other psychological views in that it doesn't care about the psyche. Rather, it focuses on how the mind behaves, how outside factors can manipulate it, and so on.
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Is extreme empathy and compassion considered a disorder?
Can extreme empathy and compassion get to a point where it is considered a disorder?
For example, if someone is so empathetic, when feeling someones pain it negatively affects their life to the same ...
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Why do we rely on others in dangerous situations?
*This question is based on my observations.
Q: What is the reason people trust their peers implicitly in extreme (or not) situations?
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How much evidence is needed to support a claim? [closed]
Let's say that I hypothesised that if I behave in a certain way (X) then the people I interact with will respond with behaviour (Y). How much evidence do I need to make such claim ?
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Is the order of stimulus pairings in second order conditioning relevant? [closed]
In second order conditioning next to a CS1 + US also a CS2 + CS1 association is learned so that also CS2 will cause a CR. Is the order in which the stimuli associations are learned (CS1 + US and CS2 + ...
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Comparison of Aversion Therapy to other interventions for nail-biting
A product Pavlock, which is essentially a shock bracelet for Aversion Therapy, markets itself as an intervention for a range of habits, including procrastination and nail-biting. Wikipedia cites the ...
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What is the difference between behaviorism and cognitivism?
Recently I've been reading about the subject, and I have trouble finding a definite difference between the two. What is the difference between behaviorism and cognitivism?
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Cognitivism over Behaviorism [duplicate]
While reading up on the differences between cognitivism and behaviorism, I came across this:
Cognitive science, however, overcomes Behaviorism’s main faults,
particularly that reflexes and ...
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Why has behaviourism fallen out of favour?
The reasons for behaviourism as a philosophy and school of psychology to have fallen out of favour are well known and documented. However, when Newton's view of gravity was replaced by general ...
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