Behaviourist Approach Assumptions
- Created by: Demi Yates
- Created on: 23-10-14 10:55
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- Behaviourist Approach Q1
- Q1a Assumptions
- Classical Conditioning
- Explanation: Learning through association. Aims to account for the way in which reflex/automatic behaviours may become associated with a new stimulus that doesn't naturally produce a response.
- Example: Pavlov conditioned his dogs to salivate whenever they heard the sound of a buzzer.
- Process: UCS is repeatedly paired with with a NS. Because of this, the NS will become the CS which will produce a CR.
- Operant Conditioning
- Explanation: It suggests that behaviour is shaped depending on consequence
- Positive reinforcement- something pleasurable added to a situation, strengthens behaviour.
- Negative reinforcement: something aversive taken from a situation, strengthens behaviour
- Punishment: some pleasurable taken/something aversive added to a situation, weakens behaviour
- Example: Skinner conditioned a rat to press a lever to get food by using operant conditioning.
- Explanation: It suggests that behaviour is shaped depending on consequence
- Classical Conditioning
- Q1a Assumptions
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