evaluating methodology of the behaviourist approach

PARA 1:

• assumption of behaviourist approach- behaviour can be explained interms of operant conditioning.
• as behaviourists believe that our environment is influenced by our interactions with the enviornment, if we manipulate our behaviour we can establish that cause of certain behaviour.
• thus, behaviourists use experiments to see if this is true.
• bandura et al comducted a series of  experiments to support his socail learning theory.
• in the experiment children were observed, if they acted aggressively towards the bobo doll, if they experienced an adult role model acting aggressively towards bobo.

PARA 2:

• one strength of lab experiments is that they offer an objective means of studying human behaviour.
• as the experiment will follow set, standardised procedures, this means the experiment can be repeated again (replicated) by others to demonstrate the validity of the findings.
• another strenghth, is that lab experiments is the only way to stuy causal relationships because extraneous variables can be controlled.
• HOWEVER, one…