Classical conditioning.

• Strength is that it led to development of treatment of phobias. FE CC led to development of treatment of systematic desensitisation which helps treat phobias. TMB this form of therapy eliminated the learned anxious response and replaces it with relaxation.Therefore the patient is no longer anxious in the presence of feared object or situation. Therefore it is useful in real life application.
• A weakness of CC is that it can be seen as to simplistic.FE Pavlov believed complex behaviour could be broken down into smaller stimulus-response units of behaviour.TMB this theory does not consider role of other factors have our behaviour such as our thought processes and oversimplifies complex human behaviour.Therefore approach is reductionist.