how a neutral stimulus can come to elicit a conditioned response through association
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who researched operant conditioning
behaviour is shaped by its consequences
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who researched operant conditioning
skinner
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what is :
positive reinforcement
negative reinforcement
punishment
positive: receiving a reward
negative: avoiding something unpleasant and the outcome is a positive experience
punishment: an unpleasant consequence of behaviour
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what rienforces likelihood of behaviour and what decreases the likelihood of behaviour
positive and negative reinforcement increase the likelihood of a behaviour
punishment decreases the likelihood a behaviour will be repeated
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strength of the research
well controlled research
breaking down behaviour into stimulus-response allows a cause and affect relationship to be established
scientific credibility
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limitation of the behaviourist approach
may have oversimplified the learning process
reductionist
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how have the principles of conditioning been applied to the real word
token economies such as prisons
they work by rewarding appropriate behaviour with a token that can be exchanged for privileges
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a further limitation
environmental determinism
skinner said that free will Is an illusion
ignores the influence of conscious decision making
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
who rejected introspection
Back
Watson
Card 3
Front
what did behaviourists try to maintain in their research
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