Skinner

group specific change is here to stayB. F. Skinner People do on a day to day basis, many actions without realizing it, and most of the time, they don't know why they do them. Certain reinforcements, some positive, and some negative have conditioned their actions and thoughts. All organisms, including humans, are greatly influenced by the consequences produced by their own behavior. The environment holds the key to most of the changes that occur in the way a person behaves and a human's own behavior brings consequences that change his or her actions (B. F. Skinner). Dr. B.F. Skinner forged the theory of Behaviorism, "a school of psychology that rejects the unobservable and focuses on patterns of responses to external reward

Sigmund Freud is one of the most famous psychologists to

ever hit the study of psychology. His name alone

symbolizes the importance of his theories, and the name

that comes to most people's heads when saying the word

psychology is Sigmund Freud. Freud was a psychodynamic

psychologist and came from the conservative point of view

which states that man is bad and society is good, which I

do not agree with 100% because not all man's actions are

necessarily bad and with bad intentions.

Freud was a real pessimist when it came to human nature.

He identifies man's weaknesses in saying that man is a

biological creature with biological drives. He reflected these

ideas off of Darwin's original ideas. I do agree with this

theory because man's drives are survival and

self-preservation. Freud also stated that mankind's

aggression helps him to survive, he says that man has an

innate sense of survival. I also agree with this theory

because aggression and dominance guarantees our surv...