B.F. Skinner and Operant Conditioning

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Capitalism, according to Rand, is the social system in which the government's only role is to protect individual ______

rights

A person has a freedom to think or not. Though, for Rand, the Majority belongs to the passive supporters of the status quo who choose not to ______

think

Disposing material values, thus, is not just a matter of throwing waste but projecting where to dump wastes that would not impinge on the rights of ______

others

Most developed countries have disposed their toxic wastes to developing ______

countries

Every Filipino should be given equal chance to cultivate their talents that inevitably contribute in the development of the ______

society

The author agrees to Rand's views of individual in the advancement of a ______

person

According to Rand, individual freedom should be aligned with economic ______

freedom

'sakop' or harmony can be a helping value to the full development of the Filipino if it opens up to embrace the whole Philippine ______

Society

According to Skinner, our struggle for freedom is not due to a will to be ______ as for Aristotle or Sartre

free

The true empowerment of democracy was exhibited in EDSA by its successful efforts to oust a tyrant by a demonstration without tolerance for violence and ______

bloodshed

The Philippines was praised worldwide in 1986, when the so-called bloodless revolution erupted, called EDSA People Power's ______

Revolution

Ayn Rand is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas ______

Shrugged

A behaviorist, B. F. Skinner developed the theory of operant conditioning, the idea that behavior is determined by its consequences, be they reinforcements or ______

punishments

Laissez-faire capitalism, according to Ayn Rand, is not just an ideal but an unknown ______

ideal

Yelon (1996) accepted that behavioral psychology is at fault for having over analyzed the words 'rewards' and 'punishment'. We might have miscalculated the effect of the environment in the ______

individual

Born and educated in Russia, Ayn Rand moved to the United States in ______

1926

Poverty is not one dimensional, rather it is ________

multidimensional

The notion of poverty relates to various dimensions such as income, health, education, empowerment, and ________

working conditions

Jean Jacques Rousseau said that women should be educated to please men and be useful to men, take care, advise, console men, and make men's lives easy and ________

agreeable

In her work, Mary Wollstonecraft argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be so only because they lack ________

education

Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights until the late 20th century. She called for the betterment of women's status through political change, such as the radical reform of national educational systems in her work A Vindication of the Rights of ________

Woman

Wollstonecraft's life encompassed several unconventional personal relationships at the time, which received more attention than her ________

writing

Martin Heidegger's work is most readily associated with ______ and existentialism

phenomenology

The National Statistic Office estimated that about 1.44 million Filipinos have some form of ______ in the employable 15-64 years old age bracket

disability

The Philippine government supports persons with disabilities (PWDs) to ______ a job

land

Executive Order No. 417 directs the implementation of the Economic Independence Program for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) to protect their rights and promote their ______

welfare

The General Appropriations Act provides funding mechanisms for programs and projects of PWDs and their organizations from at least one percent (1%) of the total yearly budget of all National Government Agencies and Instrumentalities including Government Financial Institutions and Government owned and controlled corporations to ensure their ______

rehabilitation

The National Anti-Poverty Action Program and the Administration's 10-Point Legacy Agenda target the delivery of services to and the ______ of the marginalized basic sectors, such as PWDs

development

Proclamation No. 240 on the Philippine Decade of Disabled Persons 2003-2012 instructs all Heads of Departments, Chiefs of Bureaus, Offices, Agencies and Instrumentalities of the National Government, Local Government Units to implement plans, programs and activities geared towards the ______ of PWDs

development

It is a policy of the State under the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines to protect the rights of persons with disabilities (PWDs) and promote their ______ and development

welfare

Martin Heidegger says that human kind is ______

conversation

Ayn Rand's work emphasizes individual freedom aligned with economic ______

freedom

Test your knowledge about the influential American psychologist B.F. Skinner and his theory of operant conditioning, which suggests that behavior is influenced by its consequences. Explore the impact of reinforcements and punishments on behavior.

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