Behaviourist Perspective Overview
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- Created on: 05-04-13 12:13
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- Behaviourist Perspective
- Assumption
- All born a blank slate
- All beh. learned from experiences after birth
- learning is relatively permanent change in beh. due to past experiences
- Classical Conditioning
- Not seen in core studies
- Learning occurs through repeated association
- Study (not core)
- Operant Conditioning
- Learning through reinforcement
- Studies
- Milgram
- Participants gave stooge 'electric shocks'
- Savage-Rumbaugh
- -Bonobos & chimps learn language on lexigraphs?
- Milgram
- Social Learning Theory
- Learn through imitation and reinforcement
- Study
- Bandura
- Do children imitate aggressive models?
- Bandura
- Strengths
- Evidence based on rigorous scientific technique
- Very useful
- Stimulus response theory
- Behavioural modification techniques
- Weaknesses
- Too simplistic for complex human beh.
- Heavily reliant on animal-based research
- Based on observable beh. only
- Does not consider internal processes
- Assumption
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