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List three behaviorists and write a sentence about each of their contributions to the study of behavior.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Describe each of the three structures of Freudian personality.
 
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Answer to Question 1

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Behaviorists and their contributions are as follows:
Watson: ideas of conditioning into human terms, process of classical conditioning, scientific validation for setting conditions of learning and rewarding the proper responses
Thorndike: godfather of standardized testing, scales to measure student achievement, stimulus-response technique for establishing behavior and habits
Skinner: radical behaviorist, doctrine of person as empty organism (vessel) to be filled with carefully designed experiences
Bandura:
social learning theory, idea of learning by watching (observing) and imitating (modeling) others both in real life and media

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
Three structures of the Freudian personality are:
id: instinctive part that drives a person to seek satisfaction
ego: rational structure that forms a persons sense of self
superego: moral side that informs the person of right and wrong



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again



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