Friday, September 21, 2007

Free will vs. Determinism

I'm interested in examining behavior and the environmental events that precede and follow behavior. The effects of antecedents and consequences are cumulative on an individual's behavior. Behavior is affected by what an individual experiences in a given situation, and also by what he/she has experienced prior to that situation. Every individual brings his/her unique learning history to any given situation. This learning history determines how the individual will behave in response to whatever stimulus is presented. Therefore, we can say that our future behaviors are determined by what we have learned from behaviors we exhibited in the past and how we react in given situations.

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