Strengths and Weaknesses of Conditioning

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Strengths and Weaknesses of Conditioning

Advantages

  • There is lots of research/evidence for learning by conditioning

Disadvantages

  • We can learn by observation (Social learning theory)
  • Conditioning cannot explain all human behaviour
  • Research is mainly on animals- cannot generalise it onto humans
  • Different species have different capacities for learning by conditioning. some may learn by observations with no reinforcement
  • Genetics seem to influence the limit what species can learn by conditioning
  • Animal studies can be seen as unethical.

Evaluation

More research needs to be conducted into conditioning in human studies.

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