Some notes on Behaviourism
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select -- doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.
--John Watson, Behaviorism, 1930
From:
http://psychology.about.com/od/behavioralpsychology/f/behaviorism.htm
Both Anthony Burgess's landmark novel A Clockwork Orange and the subsequent film directed by the legendary Stanley Kubrick move to lift B.F. Skinner's psychological theory of Behaviorism to a sphere that even he may have thought unlikely. Or, probably, merely hoped with all his heart wouldn't be considered by rational human beings. What is Behaviorism? In a nutshell, Behaviorism is BF Skinner's psychological theory which posits the potentially devastating notion that positive reinforcement through reward for good behavior combined with negative reinforcement through punishment for bad behavior will instill in a person a deep-seated aspiration to continue that behavior in the pursuit of the reward. Behaviorist techniques have become the norm in contemporary society in everything from the educational system to politics to entertainment.
From:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/328648/what_is_behaviorism_and_is_it_a_good.html?cat=72
A complex explanation:
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/behaviour.htm
A slightly more accessible version:
http://www.funderstanding.com/content/behaviorism
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select -- doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.
--John Watson, Behaviorism, 1930
From:
http://psychology.about.com/od/behavioralpsychology/f/behaviorism.htm
Both Anthony Burgess's landmark novel A Clockwork Orange and the subsequent film directed by the legendary Stanley Kubrick move to lift B.F. Skinner's psychological theory of Behaviorism to a sphere that even he may have thought unlikely. Or, probably, merely hoped with all his heart wouldn't be considered by rational human beings. What is Behaviorism? In a nutshell, Behaviorism is BF Skinner's psychological theory which posits the potentially devastating notion that positive reinforcement through reward for good behavior combined with negative reinforcement through punishment for bad behavior will instill in a person a deep-seated aspiration to continue that behavior in the pursuit of the reward. Behaviorist techniques have become the norm in contemporary society in everything from the educational system to politics to entertainment.
From:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/328648/what_is_behaviorism_and_is_it_a_good.html?cat=72
A complex explanation:
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/behaviour.htm
A slightly more accessible version:
http://www.funderstanding.com/content/behaviorism
