Classical Conditioning Evaluation

CLASSICAL CONDITIONING EVALUATION:

Evidence

• Classical Conditioning shows how the environment can determine behaviour through stimuli response mechanism e.g. Little ablbert initially showed no fear of rats but through his experience developede a phobia that was widely GENERALISED.

Application to real life

• The principals of classical conditioning are used successfully in behaivoural therapies such as aversion and systematic desensitisation. such tharapies can be used to cure phobias and addictions.

How it's investigated

• The behaivourist theories are easily testible due to the use of experimental methods because this is seen as scientific as it allows strict…