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History of Psychology, 4/e
David Hothersall, Ohio State University

Four Neobehaviorist Psychologists

Chapter Outline


Edward Chace Tolman

  1. Tolman’s Early Life
  2. Tolman’s Cognitive Behaviorism
    1. Thoughtful Maze-Learning Rats
    2. Purposive Behavior
    3. Latent Learning
    4. Tolman's Insight-Learning Experiments
    5. Place versus Response Learning
  3. Tolman’s Theoretical Model
  4. Tolman’s General Concerns

Edwin Ray Guthrie

  1. Guthrie’s Early Life
  2. Learning Through Contiguity
    1. Rewards and Punishments
    2. Movements versus Acts
    3. The Guthrie-Horton Experiment
  3. Guthrie’s Clinical Interests

Clark Leonard Hull

  1. Hull’s Early Life
  2. Hull’s Research on Aptitude Testing
  3. Hull’s Research on Hypnosis and Suggestibility
  4. Hull’s Behavior System
  5. Hull’s Learning Theory
    1. Postulate of Habit Strength
  6. Hull’s System: An Evaluation

Burrhis Frederic Skinner

  1. Skinner’s Early Life
  2. Skinner’s Training in Psychology
  3. Skinner’s Operant Conditioning
  4. Schedules of Reinforcement
  5. Behavioral Control
  6. Operant Conditioning and the Early Animal Space Flights
  7. Skinner’s Utopia
  8. Skinner’s Applied Research
  9. Skinner’s Behavior Modification
  10. James McConnell: Planarian, Science Fiction, Behavior Modification and the Unabomber
  11. Industrial Applications of Behavior Modification
  12. Skinner’s Later Life

Neobehaviorism in Retrospect