Psychological explanations - Behavioural
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- Created on: 07-06-14 12:18
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- Behavioural explantion
- OUTLINE
- All the symptoms can be related to this approach
- Bizarre behaviour - operant conditioning, get attention from the behaviour so behave this way to gain attention. OR SLT - can copy the behaviour seen from other people
- Auditory hallucinations- operant conditioning, the hallucinations are reinforced and are believed real, they also get sympathy and could continue whether real or not
- Classical conditioning - learning through association. Operant conditioning - learning through reinforcementSLT - learning through observation
- A consequence of faulty learning
- Scheff labelling theory suggests that individuals labelled in this way may continue to conform to the label. Then rewarded with attention and so reinforced
- Any symptoms could be SLT because children with schizophrenicparents could copy and develop symptoms overtime
- Ulman and Krasner observed mental health nurses and found they reinforced the behaviour by giving them more attention
- All the symptoms can be related to this approach
- EVALUTATION
- Has some face validity but lacks conviction as a causal explanation
- Reductionist because it ignores any other genetic and biological theories behind it
- The validity of the model is moderately supported by the success of behaviour therapies
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