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Behaviorist approach
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- 1What do behaviorist's study?what can be seen
- 2What does tabula rasa (Latin) mean?humans are born blank slates
- 3What is classical conditioning?behavior learnt through association
- 4Give an example of Classical conditioningPavlov's dog experiment
- 5Define operant conditioningbehavior learnt through reinforcement
- 6State the types of reinforcementpositive/negative/punishment
- 7Who envisaged the idea of the reinforcement above?Skinner
- 8What occurs as a result of positive reinforcement?An increase in the likelihood of repeated behavior
- 9What occurs as a result of negative reinforcement?avoidance of an unpleasant feeling
- 10What occurs as a result of punishment as a reinforcement?A decrease in the likelihood of the behavior
- 11What is a conditioned stimulus?previously neutral stimulus that has been repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus and produces a learnt response
- 12Give an example of a conditioned stimulusPavlov's bell became the conditioned stimulus because the dogs learnt to salivate when hearing it
- 13Define an unconditioned responsean un learnt response leading to an unconditioned response
- 14Explain what an unconditioned stimulus isnaturally/automatically produces a response without learning
- 15What is a neutral stimulus?doesn't naturally produce a particular response before conditioning
- 16conditioned responselearned reaction to a previously neutral stimulus that occurs after repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus.
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