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Psychological Determinism
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- 1What is behaviourism?assumes that all behaviour comes from an outside influence
- 2What does this believe about behaviour?- comes from outside influence
- not a result of thinking or reasoning
- no need to believe in mind
- fits with people who want to deny soul
- fits with hard determinism - 3What is operant conditioning?the use of consequences to modify the occurrence and form of behaviour
- 4How does it differ from classical conditioning/Pavlovian conditioning?operant conditions deals with modification of voluntary behaviour, it operates on the environment and is maintained by its consequences while classical deals with conditioning of respondent behaviour elicited by preaching conditions
- 5How are behaviours conditioned via classical conditioning?not maintained by consequences
- 6What is confirmation bias?people tend to defend a view that we are previously emotionally or intellectually linked to
- 7What is Pavlov's dog?an experiment to show classical conditioning with animals, he would ring the bell and give the dog food etc until dog salivates when he hears the bell without the food being present (inducing behaviour)
- 8What experiments can substantiate this theory?- Skinner's box; taught behaviour in animals in return for reward
- Milgram experiment; 65% continued to shock
- Stanford Prison; guard simulation
- twin documentation - 9What can be said in favour of behaviourism/psychological determinism- useful in helping with compulsive disorders
- logical to think certain influences determine us e.g. social conditioning
- offers evidence for how causal factors can influence our behaviour - 10What can be said against behaviourism/psychological determinism?- experiment evidence is misleading
- animals are not human
- twin evidence is deliberately chosen to prove hypotheses
- removes moral responsibility
- pessimistic of world we live in
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- Free Will and Determinism Flashcards on Psychological Determinism , created by Zoe Bone on 24/04/2017.
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