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6. What is a strength of the behaviourist perspective?

  • It has practical applications which apply to the majority of people
  • It is unbiased
  • It is ethical
  • It has criterion validity

7. What is the definition of social learning theory?

  • a learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.
  • people learn from one another, via observation, imitation, and modelling
  • two stimuli are linked together to produce a new learned response in a person or animal.

8. Research related to animals cannot be applied to humans?

  • False
  • True

9. What is the definition of classical conditioning?

  • two stimuli are linked together to produce a new learned response in a person or animal.
  • people learn from one another, via observation, imitation, and modelling
  • a learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

10. What is a limitation of the behaviourist perspective?

  • It is very difficult to separate the effects of social influences from the individual
  • It does not have practical applications
  • There is low ecological validity
  • There are no ethical issues

11. Which theory did Chaney's study not support?

  • Operant conditioning
  • Social Learning Theory
  • Classical conditioning

12. The behaviourist approach is scientific?

  • True
  • False

13. What is a limitation of the behaviourist perspective?

  • Social studies often have restricted samples and therefore it can lack generalizability
  • It has high reliability
  • There is low ecologcal validity
  • Understanding what types of characteristics are likely to cause negative of positive behaviours can help us to encourage or discourage those traits

14. What is negative reinforcement?

  • a response or behaviour is strengthened by stopping, removing, or avoiding a negative outcome.
  • a response or behaviour is weakened by stopping, removing, or avoiding a negative outcome
  • a response or behaviour remains the same by stopping, removing, or avoiding a negative outcome.

15. Which of these core studies looks at the behaviourist approach?

  • Bandura
  • Casey
  • Milgram
  • Simon and Chabris