Five schools of Behaviourism

Five schools of Behaviourism

1. Watson's Methodological Behaviourism

   • Study of publicly observable behaviour Stimulus produces a response

2. Hull's Neurobehaviourism

   • Clarke Hull Operationalisation of unobserved constructs and events He believed that there are internal variables with events like physiological reactions

3. Tolmon's Cognitive Behaviourism

   • Believed in a pattern of behaviour rather then a stimulus- reaction connection He did the rat mase

4. Bandura's social learning theory

   • Observational learning Social learning theory- importance of observational learning and cognitive variables in explaining human behaviour Reciprocal determinism Believed that environmental events, observable behaviour and person variables, like thinking and feeling influence each other

5. Skinners Radical Behaviourism

   • Internal states not explanations of behaviour but an event to be explained