the behaviourist approach
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- Created on: 14-01-20 11:26
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- the behaviourist approach
- strengths
- uses quantitative data
- repeatable
- reductionist
- it has practical applications
- uses quantitative data
- weaknesses
- generalised from animals
- only considers nurture as the important side of the debate
- key features
- all behaviour is learnt
- nurture not nature
- uses environmentaldeterminism
- this is where behaviour is reduced to a simple stimulus response association
- nomothetic
- this is when results from experiments are generalised to explain behaviours to everyone
- experiments look for observable behaviours
- uses quantitive data from experiments
- there's no fundamental distinction between human and animal behaviour
- key experiments
- pavlovs dog
- classical conditioning
- skinners rat
- operant conditioning
- pavlovs dog
- strengths
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