Behaviourism

• AO3 - Evaluation - STRENGTH

  Real life application:

  • Increasing understanding of classical and operant conditioning, led to development of treatments and therapies. Prisoners receive tokens to tidying rooms.
  • Lab study - highly controlled, standardised
• WEAKNESSES

  Environmental determinism - ignores environment, leaving no room for free will. Doesn't account for humans emotions

  Hard determinism - says we will make association and all follow the same path

  Lab experiment - difficult to generalise to whole population/ ecological validity issues