环境
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
The environment will appear different to different observers depending on what they are prepared to see.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
The last of human freedoms is the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
The course of human life is not determined by drives or environment alone, but by creative self-direction as well.
The organism does not perceive stimuli, but objects in their environments.
The environment is not a mosaic of stimuli, but a field of forces in which every part is dynamically related to every other part.
The cognitive map is not a picture or a model in the head, but a dynamic, changing representation of the environment.
The environment shapes behavior through the mechanism of reinforcement.
The organism is essentially a passive responder to environmental stimuli.
The environment shapes behavior, but behavior also shapes the environment.
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
Heredity is nothing, environment is everything.
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select—doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.
Mental activity is the organism's dialogue with its environment.
Mental processes are tools for mastering the environment.
To understand psychology, observe behavior in its natural context.