Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Personality Sixth edition Chapter 6 Behaviorist and Learning Aspects of Personality
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Modules Introduction: Behaviorist and Learning Aspects of Personality 6.1: The Classical Conditioning of Personality 6.2: Watson's Behaviorism 6.3: The Radical Behaviorism of B. F. Skinner 6.4: Applying Behaviorism 6.5: Other Learning Approaches to Personality 6.6: Evaluation Conclusion: Behaviorist and Learning Aspects of Personality
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Learning Objectives (1 of 2) 6.1: Interpret the classical conditioning approach of personality 6.2: Examine the genesis of behaviorism 6.3: Interpret B. F. Skinner's behaviorist approach 6.4: Apply behaviorism to explain personality differences
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Learning Objectives (2 of 2) 6.5: Probe the work done by some of the other experimental psychologists of the 1930s and 1940s 6.6: Evaluate how theories on conditioning, reward, and extinction are relevant in current studies of personality
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Introduction: Behaviorist and Learning Aspects of Personality −Uniqueness of behaviorist approaches −Behaviorism −Partial reinforcement
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Objective: Interpret the classical conditioning approach of personality −Locke’s views on infants −Comparison of Locke’s approach to personality 6.1: The Classical Conditioning of Personality
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.1.1: Conditioning a Response to a Stimulus −Classical conditioning −Pavlov’s observations
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.1.2: Behavioral Patterns as a Result of Conditioning −Behavioral reaction patterns −Pavlov’s constructs
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.1.3: Extinction Processes −Extinction −Outcome
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.1.4: Conditioning of Neurotic Behavior −Neuroticism −Pavlov
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.1.5: Complexities in Application of Conditioning Principles −Complexities −Classical conditioning
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Objective: Examine the genesis of behaviorism −Behaviorist approaches philosophers −Limitations of subject analyses 6.2: Watson's Behaviorism
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.2.1: The Rejection of Introspection −Behaviorism −Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.2.2: Conditioned Fear and Systematic Desensitization −Little Albert’s conditioned fear −Systematic desensitization
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Objective: Interpret B. F. Skinner's behaviorist approach −B. F. Skinner −Factors responsible for behavior 6.3: The Radical Behaviorism of B. F. Skinner
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.3.1: Operant Conditioning as an Alternative Description of Personality −Operant conditioning −Skinner’s rejections
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.3.2: Controlling the Reinforcement −Skinner box −Process
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.3.3: Skinner’s Behaviorist Utopia −Walden Two −Skinner’s proposed society
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Objective: Apply behaviorism to explain personality differences −Role of biological factors −Role of environment in hereditary characteristics 6.4: Applying Behaviorism
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.4.1: Internal Processes, External Causation, and Free Will −Characteristics of organisms −Similarities between Freud and Skinner
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Objective: Probe the work done by some of the other experimental psychologists of the 1930s and 1940s −Experimental psychologists’ beliefs in 1930s and 1940s −Internal characteristics of organisms 6.5: Other Learning Approaches to Personality
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.5.1: The Role of Internal Drives −Clark Hull’s emphases −Primary drives of organisms
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.5.2: Social Learning Theory −Neil Miller’s research −Dollard’s and Miller’s study of personality
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.5.3: Habit Hierarchies −Concept of secondary drive −Harlow’s studies on rhesus monkeys
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.5.4: Drive Conflict −Conflicts between primary and secondary drives −Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.5.5: Patterns of Child-Rearing and Personality −Sears’s view of personality −Measure of childhood personality
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6.5.6: Modern Behaviorist Personality Approaches −Behavioral theories −Act frequency approach
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Objective: Evaluate how theories on conditioning, reward, and extinction are relevant in current studies of personality −Aspects absent in behaviorism −Notions pervading psychology 6.6: Evaluation
Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Conclusion: Behaviorist and Learning Aspects of Personality −Advantages −Limitations −Common assessment technique −Implications for therapy