Temple Grandin - Lesson 3 (9-14)

According to Grandin, what is the central feature BEHAVIORISTS observe when studying an animal or human psychology?

• How the animal responds to people.

• "environment is the only thing that mattered"

• How animals are treated unfairly.

What is the "black box" and why was it off-limits to behaviorists?

• It was a dark place and you wouldn't want to be there.

• It was what you could easily see the animals doing.

• It was stuff, intelligence, emotions and motives that you can not measure.

What is the difference between PUNISHMENT and REINFORCEMENT?

• Punishment is something bad happening to you and negative reinforcement is something you don't like either stops or doesn't start in the first place.

• Punishment is something bad and reinforcement means don't do it again.

• Punishment makes you learn never to do it again and reinforcement makes you see that it was wrong.

What does Temple mean by "stimulus - response machines"?

• Animals react different in all situations

• Animals react the same way to positive and negative reinforcement.

• Animals do not have reactions to things, they're animals.

What do you know about behaviorism?

• Environment is the only thing that matters

• Animals don't have behavior, they're just animals.

• Behaviorism is the study of animals.

Skinner believed that operant conditioning made the study of the brain unnecessary.

• True

• False

Why did Temple believe that operant conditioning was wrong?

• Dr. Skinner didn't know what he was talking about because he didn't do research.

• What is operant conditioning?

• From her own experience, Temple saw that she "had problems that sure didn't seem to be coming from (her) environment."

What is the connection between behaviorists and ethologists?

• Both study animals in their environments

• Both study animals in their environments in the lab

• Both study animals in their environments in their natural environment.

Temple says "the equipment won't work if the environment is bad" how does this relate to behaviorism ?

• she compares the old v-restraints to her new design. She says "animals don't like to walk into a space where they feel like there isn't enough space for their feet."

• She wanted people to buy her products so she could make money

• behaviorism is an old practice and people don't use it anymore.

Temple uses behaviorism to support her understanding of animals but doesn't believe "the laws of learning were simple and universal, and all creatures followed them"

• True

• False