Behaviourism A03

• Scientific credibility

  Bringing scientific methods and objectivity to psychology
• Objectivity and Replication

  Important in behaviorism for credibility and status
• Real life application

  Applying conditioning principles to real world behaviors
• Token economy systems

  Using operant conditioning in institutions like prisons and psychiatrics
• Classical conditioning therapies


  Suitable for patients who lack insight or are weaker
• Mechanist view of behavior

  Seeing people/animals as passive responders in the environment
• Social learning theory and Cognitive approach

  Emphasises the importance of mental events during learning
• Stimulus and response


  Social learning theory and cognitive approach suggest that people play an active role in learning
• Environmental determinism

  Skinner's belief that behavior is determined by past experiences
• Ethics

  'Skinner box' where animals exposed to stressful and aversive conditions so they could've changed the outcome of the experiment