Skinners Behaviourism

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Conditioning Shaping Behaviour Modification Behaviour Environment

Skinner’s Behaviourism

Token Economy Reinforcements Positive Reinforcement Learning Approximations Operant Extinction

Who was Skinner? • American Psychologist

Q u ic k T im e ªa n da T IF F(U n c o m p re s se d )d e c o m p re s so r a ren e e d e dtose eth isp ic tu re .

• Operant Conditioning • Of the first to describe radical behaviourism Q u ic k T im e ªa n da T IF F(U n c o m p re sse d )d e c o m p re sso r a ren e e d e dtose eth isp ic tu re .

• Founded school of experimental analysis of behaviour • Prolific author who published over 20 books

What is Behaviourism? Objective study of behaviour Learning as a function of change Personal responses to environment Rewarded responses= Conditioning Reinforcements QuickTimeª and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture.

Principles of Behaviourism Behaviour that is positively reinforced will reoccur. Information should be presented in small amounts so that responses can be shaped and reinforced. Reinforcements will generalize across similar stimuli and stimulus generalization.

Classical Conditioning Pavlov’s Dog

Operant Conditioning Behaviour Modification Behaviour can stem from previous reinforcement history. Believed freedom and dignity to be unobservable and useless for a scientific purpose.

Skinner’s Beliefs & Goals

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Shape patients behaviour so that they would behave in socially acceptable ways. ABC’s of Behavioural Learning Skinner believed that we could get organisms to perform the most complex of behaviours.

Skinner’s Work Work with rats and pigeons

Skinner Box

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Skinner Box Pigeon Video

Skinner’s Toolbox Behaviourist strategies advocated and utilized by Skinner: Operant Conditioning: Behaviour Modification Positive Reinforcement Extinction Schedules of Reinforcement Token Economy Approximations of desired behaviour

Why Sara is failing in school Failure to provide positive reinforcement for good behaviour. Information and instruction not presented in small, manageable chunks. Teacher fails to reward approximations Failure to look at antecedants and consequences of behaviour

Behaviourist Solutions and Tools for Sara’s Success

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Reward approximations of desired behaviour

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Behaviourist Solutions and Tools for Sara’s Success

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Token Economy

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Behaviourist Solutions and Tools for Sara’s Success

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Positive Reinforcement

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Behaviourist Solutions and Tools for Sara’s Success

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Internalized Self Reinforcement

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Thank You!

Token Economy Game Please join us in our behaviourist trivia game.

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