The Learning Approach: Behaviourism

Assumptions: Studies behaviour that can be observed and measured. Behaviourists suggest that the basic processes of learning is the same in all species, therefore animals could replace humans as experimental subjects.

Classical Conditioning: Learning through association

• An unconditioned stimulus and a neutral stimulus are repeatedly paired together. The neutral stimulus eventually produces the same conditioned response which was first produced by the unconditioned stimulus.

Operant Conditioning: Learning through reinforcement

• Positive reinforcement is receiving a…