Question

Skinner never focused particularly on psychological disorders, but the principles of operant conditioning have been applied to explain how psychological disorders can develop. Which of the following descriptions of psychological treatment is most consistent with Skinner's view of operant conditioning?

Answer 1

Answer:

Shaping, behavior modification

Explanation:

Skinner was heavy influenced by the work by John Watson as well as early behaviorist called Ivan Pavlov and Edward Thorn di-ke. He spent most of the life teaching. Skinner researched shaping, behavior modification, positive reinforcement effect, and negative reinforcement effects. His idea of behavior modification was to put the subject on the program with the steps. The steps would be setting goals that would help you to determine how the subjects would be changed step by step. The program would be designed to help the subject to reach the desired goals.  

Skinner used many techniques for shaping people behaviors such as:

• Scheduled of reinforcement
• the shaping of the behavior
• Modification of the behavior
• Aversion stimuli