Behaviourist approch

Behaviourist approch

1. definition:The theory that human animal behaviour can be explained in terms of conditioning this takes place without taking into account any thoughts/feeling/emotions

2. if its unlearned responce its called an unconditioned responce and a unconditioned stimuli and if its learned its a conditioned responce and stimlui

3. born with a blank slate (Tabsala Rasa)

4. nurture only therefore it totally ignores nature

5. conditioning

   • operant
     • reinforcement (this can be -vely or +vely)
   • classical
     • Association

6. we learn by obseration and imitation

7. Albert Bandara constructed a experiment to see if aggression is learned and to see if his theory of modeling was true.his experiment had children observe adults beat up a bobo doll then either reward them punish them or do nothing and he fond out that the children that watched the adults being rewarded they were moree likely to be quite aggressive towards the doll and also noticed the children who observed adults being punished feared hitting the doll and the children who observed the adults having no consequenced sometimes hit the doll