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1. John Locke- Tabula Rasa

   • Behaviour is learnt and dependent upon our interactions with the environment.

2. Watson - established Behaviourism

   • Psychology should be the objective study of human behaviour and responses
     • He claimed human behaviour is determined by the environment and that behaviour could be shaped or manipulated

3. Thorndike - Law of effect - Cats

   • If behaviour is followed by a satisfying consequences then it is more likely to be repeated, however if the consequences followed by unsatisfying consequences then the behaviour is not likely to be repeated

4. Operant Conditioning

   • Operant Conditioning refers to learning due to the consequences of voluntary behaviour, through positive and negative reinforcement

5. Skinner - Rat experiments

6. Classical Conditioning

   • Pavlov
     • Pavlov studied salivation in dogs. He found that by pairing food with the sound of a bell, a dog learned to associate the food and bell. After a number of pairings the bell alone would ellicit the UCR of salivation.
   • Learning through association between two stimuli that occur together