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Mind Map by Martha Alexandra, updated more than 1 year ago
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Behaviourist
Perspective
- Dominant school
of thought during
the 1950's
- Concentrated ONLY directly
observable & dismissed
research into workings of
mind as unscientific (like
Psychoanalysis & Cognitive)
- Focuses on the way
objects or events in the
environment come to
control behaviour
through learning.
- B. F. Skinner observed that
behaviour can be controlled by
environmental circumstances that
either increase (reinforce) or decrease
(punish) their likelihood of occurring.
- John B Watson
- Ivan Pavlov
- Behaviourism suggests that all
behaviour can be explained by
environmental causes rather
than by internal forces.
- Behaviourism is focused on
observable behaviour.
- Theories of learning including
classical conditioning and
operant conditioning were the
focus of a great deal of
research.
- Basic Principle -
Behaviour is learned
and selected by its
environmental
consequences.
- Metaphor - Humans & other
animals are like machines;
the mind is like a black box
- Method - Experimentation with
humans & other animals
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