Psychology Discussion: Free Will, Behaviorism, and Learning

This assignment presents a student's response to a psychology discussion forum, addressing the core concepts of behaviorism, free will, and learning. The student explores the role of rewards and punishments in shaping human behavior, referencing both classical and operant conditioning theories. The discussion challenges the notion of free will, examining the perspectives of Skinner, Freud, and the influence of environmental factors. The student also discusses the practical implications of Skinner's work, highlighting how genetic factors and environmental feedback mechanisms, like the experience of a child sticking their finger in an electrical socket, shape behavior. The response emphasizes the importance of environmental feedback in shaping behavior and the ongoing debate surrounding free will within the field of psychology.

Psychology Discussion Forum 6.2
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Instructions: 1 page with, Single Line Spacing, Must have “Quote” from text (Chapter 7)
Answer the following questions as a discussion post:
 Does behaviorism effectively reduce the control of human behavior to nothing more than the
product of rewards and punishment?
 Do you agree or disagree with Skinner that humans have no free will and are simply products
of their environment?
 What role does Skinner's behaviorism have in how we learn?
1. The behavior of human teaches us to respond to reward and punishment. And human usually
gives a toffee or chocolate to the kid for good behavior or scold them if they are doing anything
wrong. Right from their starting days, humans have been trained. And once we learn to start our
journey, humans are ready for punishments as well as rewards.
There are two theories namely, classical conditioning and operant conditioning which fulfill the
need of the question. The classical conditioning theory says that it is a modification in the
behavior by which a subject comes to respond in an anticipated way before neutral stimulus that
has constantly been presented along with an undefined stimulus that provokes the anticipated
response.
The operant conditioning theory is a way of learning that comes through punishment and rewards
for behavior. By this punishment and rewards, the suggestion is complete between a behavior,
and it is importance for that behavior.
2. The free will is very tough issue because it shows collision among two different, however it is
also legal perceptions. Within the psychology that there is no consensus as to whether we
really do have free will – many of our field seems to assume that we do not. Skinner does not
agree much on, but one thing they did agree that behavior of human was influenced by insider
and the outsider. Freud says that unconscious fights as reasons of behavior, and Skinner says
about environmental possibilities.
3. We can see that Skinner work was the answer to the questions like, how human learns, he very
well specified us that genetic matters, pavlovian conditioning matters, and human & other things
that included in the mechanism that allow feedback from the environment so that we can shape
our behavior Skinner called this process operant conditioning. The operant is the performance
that works on environment and by doing this; we can get environment feedback to shape our
behavior by creating this. Example like when I was small, I stuck my finger in electric switch
board that was our behavior and that was a crazy feeling it a kind ok environmental feedback.
And I learn from this that I will never stick my finger again in electrical switch board.

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