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![]() ![]() According to them, just about everything that you could use to describe yourself-whether that is traits, skills, titles, or preferences-comes from your environment. The more hardline behaviorists believed that humans are born as “blank slates” with virtually no pre-existing programming or inherent characteristics. nurture” debate, behaviorists fall firmly on the “nurture” side. The general idea behind behaviorism is that people (and animals) are heavily influenced and directed by outside factors. It was championed by John Watson, but Skinner is the psychologist most often associated with behaviorism thanks to his many theories and experiments (GoodTherapy, 2015). If you’re not familiar with behaviorism, it’s definitely worth a dive into the literature however, for the purposes of this piece, we’ll give a brief overview.īehaviorism was the guiding perspective on psychology for several decades, from around the 1930s to the 1960s. The theory of operant conditioning was developed by famed behaviorist B. ![]() In this theory, “positive” doesn’t necessarily mean “good” and “negative” doesn’t necessarily mean “bad.”ī.F.
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