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The Radical Behaviourism of BF Skinner Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

This is just a summary from the textbook, Personlogy: from individual to ecosystem, thus all credit is awarded to C Moore, HG Viljoen and WF Meyer

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Background

Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904–­1990) constr­ucted a radical behavi­ourist theory in which behaviour is explained as the lawful result of enviro­nmental factors.
Skinner's Theory is an altern­ative to conven­tional person­ality theories in that he tries to offer an explan­ation for all behaviour from a completely different perspe­ctive.
Instead of unders­tanding behaviour as the result of internal factors, he attempts to base his explan­ation on the effect of enviro­nmental influences.

The Structure of the Person­ality