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Believed in natural selection
published The Origin of Species
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Classical conditioning, when two stimuli are repeatedly paired learned conditions occur through continued association.
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Structuralism, the study of the mind. Introspectrum: speaking your contious thoughts.
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Founder of American psychology, functionalism: the function of the mind and how to adapt to the world surrounding us. Animals evolved similar to humans.
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The scientific study of observable behavior. A significantly different approach than those who proceeded him. Generalized S-R reflex model (antecedent stimulus and response). Animal research and now controversial child studies (little Albert).
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Doesn't always work primarily because of spontaneity (behavior occurs but the stimulus was absent) and behavior variability; the unobservables or unaccounted for (S-O-R).
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Responsible for the second phase of the behavioral movement introducing the "o" (organic) to the original S-R model (S-O-R) accounting for variability, spontaneity, and the unobservables, all areas that were previously not explained.
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Radical behaviorism an attempt to explain all behavior
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The application of research that solves socially significate behavioral problems. This occurs through the development and evaluation of techniques found and verified through experimentation. Applied behavior analysis addresses a variety of populations, settings, and at the organizational level. This domain also addresses some areas covered under psychopathologies such as anxiety and mood disorders.
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These are the professionals that use strategies learned in laboratories and apply them with the primary goal being to create socially significant behavioral changes directly to clients. This is mainly done by focusing on decreasing socially inappropriate behaviors and finding replacement behaviors to serve in their place.
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Radical behaviorism (thoroughgoing behaviorism) seeks philosophical resolutions throughout each of the three domains. A critical inspection addressing the nature and purpose of the overall science called behavior analysis and its’ current practices.
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The conduction of basic research. This typically occurred in laboratories. Originally the focus was on animals, but in recent years there has been a bigger focus on complex human issues. There is a heavy emphasis on the essential core processes such as reinforcement, escape, generalization, extinction, etc.
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Discribled as his most important work and still in publication today Skinners interpretation of verbal behavior described in objective-empirical terms.
