Discussion:
Edwin Ray Guthrie: Habit-breaking
1) Edwin Ray Guthrie was a behaviorist who performed a great deal of research in the area of habit-breaking. Choose a habit that people are commonly trying to break. Apply Guthrie's work on habit-breaking. What needs to be in place for someone to break a habit? Discuss the difficulty in breaking habits.
2) William Kaye Estes is considered a leading statistical learning theorist. He began his undergraduate work as a student of Skinner. Select a term from the list below to define and discuss. Provide a real life example for the term you selected.
array model
continuity-noncontinuity controversy
error factors
learning sets
learning to learn
paired associate learning
Markov process
probability matching
state of the system
stimulus sampling theory (SST).