Two Mental Health Theories
In this essay, I will be comparing and contrasting Ivan Pavlov’s (1927) behavioral theory and B. F. Skinner’s (1938) behavioral theory. According to Varcarolis E.M. (2017) Ivan Pavlov’sbehavioral theory is famous for investigating classical conditioning. B. F. Skinner’s behavioral theory is famous for investigating operant conditioning. Conditioning is a type of learning that links a trigger or stimulus to human behavior or response. While these forms of conditioning have differences, their purpose is the same. That purpose is acquiring new behavior.Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 (Psyche Study, 2017). B. F. Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. He considered free will as an illusion
