Behaviourism
- Created by: Gwen May Hutchings
- Created on: 29-10-18 11:40
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- Behaviorism
- A way of explaining behaviour in terms of what is observable and in terms of learning
- Classical Conditioning
- Operant Conditioning
- Skinner suggested that learning is an active process whereby humans and animals operate on their environment.
- Positive reinforcement- receiving a reward when performing a behaviour
- Negative Reinforcement- when an animal or human avoids something unpleasant
- Punishment- an unpleasant consequence of behaviour
- Strengths
- The use of highly controlled lab experiment makes the research easily replicated- high internal validity.
- Real life applications (e.g., therapy)
- Limitations
- Low ecological validity- e.g. Rats during Skinner's experiment weren't behaving normally.
- Reductionist
- Determinist
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