Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Behaviourist approach
- Classical conditioning
- Pavlov's dog
- Operant conditioning
- Skinner's rat
- Negative reinforcement
- Positive reinforcement
- Punishment
- Evaluation
- CC explanations
- Strengths
- Effective phobia treatment: Systematic desensitisation
- Limitations
- CS and UCS is difficult to establish, unlike survival skills
- OC explanations
- Strengths
- Able to establish cause and effect
- reliance on experimental method
- Controlled
conditions
- Manipulating IV to accurately measure DV
- Limitations
- Animals studies
- Cannot be generalised to more complex human behaviour
- Free will of determining reinforcement behaviours
- Skinner argued that free will is merely an illusion
- Free will is only the production of external influences that guid our daily behaviours
- Limited perspective on behaviour
- Ignoring other influencing factors
- e.g. cognitive, emotional
- treating humans beings as a consequence of conditioning alone
- Skinner argued complex human behaviour can be
understood by studying the reinforcement history
of the individual