THE BEHAVIOURIST APPROACH

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  • THE BEHAVIOURIST APPROACH
    • Classical conditioning
      • Learning through association
      • pavlovs dog (1927) salvation when food is placed near the mouth.
      • process
        • Unconditioned stimulus = unconditioned response. food = salvation bell + food = salvation bell= salvation
      • strengths
        • developedof treatments
        • Sd for systematicdesensitisation
      • weaknesses
        • can only explain some behaviour
    • Operant conditioning
      • learning through reinforcement
      • positive  reinforcement = satisfying consequences
        • something that strengthens a particular behaviour makes it more likely to occur.
        • skinner rats (1938) lever= food makes action more likely -- because the rat wants more food.
      • negative reinforcement = used to help teach specific behaviours
      • Strengths
        • well controlled conditions
          • valid+ reliable because it is well controlled
    • weaknesses
      • animal structure -- not able to make widely or generally applicable

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