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Learning Approach: Behaviourism

• Classical Conditioning:
• learning by association
• two stimuli pared together
• Pavlov's Dogs
• Operant Conditioning:
• behaviour is shaped and maintained by its consequences
• positive reinforcement --> rewards
• negative reinforcement --> avoiding the unpleasant
• punishment --> unpleasant consequence of behaviour
• Skinners Box
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Evaluation

• Scientific Credibility
• observable behaviour in lab settings
• objectivity and replication
• development of psychology as a science
• Real Life Application
• OP --> token economy systems
• CC --> treatment of phobias --> less effort from patient
• Mechanistic View of Behaviour
• passive and machine like respond to environment
• little to no conscious insight to behaviour.
• Environmental Determinism
• Ethical and Practical issues in animal experiments