Personality Sixth edition Chapter 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 6.1: The Classical Conditioning of Personality Objective: Interpret the classical conditioning approach of personality Locke’s views on infants Comparison of Locke’s approach to 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 6.3: The Radical Behaviorism of B F Skinner Objective: Interpret B F Skinner's behaviorist approach B F Skinner Factors responsible for behavior 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 6.4: Applying Behaviorism Objective: Apply behaviorism to explain personality differences Role of biological factors Role of environment in hereditary characteristics 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 6.5: Other Learning Approaches to Personality 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 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 6.6: Evaluation Objective: Evaluate how theories on conditioning, reward, and extinction are relevant in current studies of personality Aspects absent in behaviorism Notions pervading psychology 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 Copyright © 2016, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education, Inc All Rights Reserved ... 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... Skinner 6. 4: Applying Behaviorism 6. 5: Other Learning Approaches to Personality 6. 6: Evaluation Conclusion: Behaviorist and Learning Aspects of Personality Copyright © 20 16, 2012, 2009 Pearson Education,... 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: