S1 - Assumptions

• Humans are born a blank slate

  • Tabula Rasa (Blank slate)
  • Behaviour is learnt from environment (product of environment) Environmental determinism
  • Support nuture

  EXAMPLE: Bobo doll experiment

  Social Learning Theory
• Behaviour is learnt through conditioning

  • Two types
  • Classical learnt through association (Pavlov dog to salivate to bell)
  • Original stimulus that produces response - unconditioned

  Operant conditioning

  Behaviour learnt through reinforcement

  Skinner box (can learn to behave certain way when rewarded with food - trial and error)
• Humans and animals learn in similar ways

  • Laws of learning apply to both so generalise to humans
  • Classical conditioning on Pavlovs dog and can classically condition someone through SD counter-conditioning association therapy
  • Operant skinner box and then concept generalised to token econmy