Lecture on Behaviorism. Topics include:

- Causation as relationship between stimulus-response or input-output
- Elimination of consciousness and 1st person subjectivity
- Reinforcement, punishment,
- Behaviorism, determinism, and negation of free will (agency)
- BF Skinner versus Carl Rogers
- Three possible distinctions of reinforcement contingencies
- Useful applications of behaviorism (and limitations)

#behaviorism #operantconditioning #classicalconditioning

Class: Personality (4th year undergraduate psychology course) taught at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Instructor: Brad Peters, MSc, Psychologist

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