Behaviourism on human development
- Created by: Meg Fraser
- Created on: 28-12-16 13:25
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- Behaviourism: Pespective on human development
- Watson
- Majority of behaviour is learned, even a person's handedness
- Little Albert experiment - classical conditioning
- Child is passive and susceptible to influences from the environment
- Pavlov
- Classical conditioning
- Learning takes place through stimulus and response
- Under conditions of reward and punishment
- Skinner
- Operant conditioning
- Still used by parents and schools now to develop child
- Skinner's box
- Operant conditioning
- Continuous development
- Smooth gradual cumulative changes
- Children are mini adults that just lack knowledge gained through experience
- Quantitative changes - better/quicker at the same sort of skills
- Watson
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