It is the earliest form of psychology and is the idea that knowledge comes from experiences using senses. It formed the basis of the behaviourist approach.
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What is Introspection?
It is where people are shown a stimulus and are asked to describe their experience and thoughts out loud. This is used to study conscienceness.
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What is the scientific method?
This is where experiments are done in a standardised way through observable behaviour. This formed the basis of the cognitive approach.
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What are the three key assumptions of the behaviourist approach?
people are born as a blank slate, behaviour is down to nurture & behaviour is learnt through experiences like reinforcement
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what are the key assumptions of social learning theory?
Behaviour and learning can occur though observing the behaviour of others.
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Which researchers are associated with the behaviourist approach?
Ivan Pavlov and his dogs & B.F Skinner and his rats
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which researcher is associated with social learning theory?
Albert Bandura
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What factors need to be present for imitation to occur?
When we have something in common with the model who's behaviour we want to copy like gender,age or IQ.
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What is Vicarious Reinforcement?
When an individual sees the outcome of a behaviour they observe the response to see if it is positive and if it is they are more likely to imitate the behaviour.
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What are meditational processes?
This is an internal mental process that takes place to decide if they will copy the behaviour, this depends on vicarious reinforcement and self efficacy.
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