... it, but Pavlov wondered why and found the answer. The final person I will discuss is B. F. Skinner. Skinner went to Harvard to study Psychology since he had always had enjoyed observing animal and human behavior. Skinner found himself more and more a behaviorist. He worked in a lab of an experimental biologist, however, and developed behavioral studies of rats. He then Page 3 decided to ... had an interest in pigeons, he develop the ideas of "operant conditioning" and "shaping behavior". Unlike Pavlov's "classical conditioning" where an existing behavior is shaped by associating it with...

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... as behavioural theory did not account for the human thinking factor. Seligman - with his theory of learned helplessness - normally any organism will learn to avoid pain, but after teaching an animal there was no escape there is no response. It learned to become helpless, which appears to be similar in depression sufferers. Ie: if we learn there is nothing we can ... the least fearful form of the dysfunctional behaviour, there is often a list of different stimuli that will be ranked in order of anxiety inducing effects. By pairing the anxiety producing stimulus with new behaviour the aim...

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