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Thorndike's states that responses to stimuli that are followed by a satisfier tend to be learned.
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, not B. F. Skinner, was the first behaviorist to insist that psychology should be limited to a study of observable behavior.
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Psychology must be restricted to the study of behavior, according to Skinner.
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While still in college. Skinner desired to become a .
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Human behavior is subject to the laws of , according to Skinner.
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Pavlovian conditioning is also called conditioning.
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In operant conditioning, the experimenter first rewards gross approximations of the target behavior and gradually rewards responses closer to the final target. Such a procedure is called , or successive approximations.
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An event that strengthens behavior is called a .
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A reinforcer is any stimulus that, when added to a situation, increases the probability that a given behavior will recur.
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Like positive reinforcers, negative reinforcers behavior.





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