Behaviourist approach

Classical conditioning
1. Pavlov's dog
Operant conditioning
1. Skinner's rat
2. Negative reinforcement
3. Positive reinforcement
4. Punishment
Evaluation
1. CC explanations
  1. Strengths
    1. Effective phobia treatment: Systematic desensitisation
  2. Limitations
    1. CS and UCS is difficult to establish, unlike survival skills
2. OC explanations
  1. Strengths
    1. Able to establish cause and effect
      1. reliance on experimental method
        Controlled conditions
        Manipulating IV to accurately measure DV
  2. Limitations
    1. Animals studies
      1. 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
3. Limited perspective on behaviour
  1. Ignoring other influencing factors
    1. e.g. cognitive, emotional
    2. treating humans beings as a consequence of conditioning alone
  2. Skinner argued complex human behaviour can be understood by studying the reinforcement history of the individual

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