Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Identify the main principles and historical contexts of the behavioral learning tradition
- Explain why early comparative psychologists linked animal and human behavior
- Discuss the principles of reflexology and conditioned reflexes
- Identify Watson's three founding principles of behaviorism
- Discuss Holt's and Tolman's findings on molar responses and purposive or operational behaviorism
- Discuss Skinner's principles of operant conditioning
- Discuss Rotter's and Bandura's social learning theories
- Identify ways to apply the principles of the behavioral learning tradition to individual experience and behavior