Behaviourists want results, by which they can check measure and observe on the stimulus and the reacted response. ... However the animals were not physically harmed. An example of such an experiment would be Edward Thorndike's, whom also created the "law of effect". ... This process is when a stimulus which brings about no response in a human or animal, until it is associated with another. ... An example of this would be Carl Rogers, who was an important humanist, whom developed the idea of humanist theory. ...

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Thorndike, the most important researcher in animal psychology, conducted an experiment that serves as a good example of the relationship between animal psychology and behaviorism. His puzzle box was designed to study animal learning as well as animal behaviors. ... Behaviorists agreed with the belief of this animal psychologist. ... Second, both human and animal behavior would be investigated. Third, mentalistic ideas would be discarded and replaced with the behavioristic concepts of stimulus and response. ...

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This is due to a rather complex process that is unique to higher developed animals and plants. ... Those mutations that increase an animal's ability to acquire energy are rewarded as those animals now have an increased chance to survive and reproduce. ... For example, a hawk exhibits certain behaviors when it sees a flock of birds. ... Another development, perhaps influenced by an animal's appetitive behavior, is its facilitation by practice. ... It's the basis for storing something, as opposed to just reacting to stimulus. ...

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The assumption that there is little difference between humans and animals that brought the research on animals. ... Observational learning whereby an individual sees someone else's behaviour for example through the media, has a huge influence on society (Cullis, et al., 2002). ... The humanistic approach emphasizes on understanding human behaviour by studying humans not animals (Raghunathan, 2012). It has rejected the behavioral approach for its focus on reinforcement of stimulus response behaviour and for being greatly dependent on animal research (Mcleod, 2007). ... Gross (2010) gave ...

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Watson's field was animal psychology; he tells us himself that he preferred to work with animals rather than human subjects, and disliked serving as an introspective subject(Leahey, 1980). ... His first criticism was that there was no room in structuralism for animal study, because its focus was entirely on human consciousness. ... Watson also noted that researchers had provided no firm criterion for ascribing consciousness to animals, and that in any case experiments were designed without reference to consciousness in animals. Watson's basic point was that ascribing consciousnes...

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Watson directed numerous sorts of research and experiments on animal behavior, raising children, and advertising. ... Problem children are the results of anomalous relationships in the home, parental neglect and bad example. ... Parents, therefore, should be godly examples, grave shapers of children's characters, and kind and giving supporters of their youngsters. ... It creates the impression that the guardians could serve as the discriminative stimulus (SD) in the operant standard. ... For example, a child is sitting on his dad's lap and glancing at a book. ...

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For example, if the living environment of a boy or a girl is such where he/she is neglected, scolded often, abused or subjected to family violence, then there is a sure shot that that boy/girl will show similar behavior anywhere else such as school. ... The point to be remembered is that wars are initiated in the mind and man is an aggressive animal by nature. ... The line one feeling lead to another, for example, frustration gives rise to aggression is given by contemporary intrapsychic theories of psychotherapy. ... The triggering action of the environment is known as Stimulus and its respon...

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For example, the Freudian slip was created because Freud recognized that sometimes that when one has a "slip of the tongue" moment it is reveled as a person's true feelings. ... For example the conscious mind makes you aware that you have to go to the bathroom or that your body needs food or rest When it came to Freud's theory he suggested that, people must successfully pass through five stages of development in order to become healthy, well adjusted adults (Miller & Shelly, 2001, p. 35). ... For example of a parent makes the child go to the bathroom on a scheduled routin...

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