A03

• Highly valid - It explains and predicts behaviours like taste aversion
• Mainly focuses on involuntary response and doesn't account voluntary human behaviour
• Strengths:

  What did CC lead to - Led to practical inventions that helped people for example systematic desensitisation and aversion therapy
• Strengths

  Why was it an important form of learning - It explained many behaviours in humans and animals

  It explained and described the ability that animals have to learn associations between reflex behaviours and stimuli
• Strength

  What did behaviourism lead to - It led to theories and laws of learning and the appreciation of the role of environment in shaping behaviour
• Strengths

  How were the striking discoveries of animal behaviours were important - It made research more relevant for non-human animals than humans
• Strengths

  How was is good way for animals to learn - Because it was achievable by the simplest species like slugs
• What type of wide range valuable practical applications used CC - Treatment of depression and anxiety
• Weakness

  Why is the learning a weakness - It's new and more complex
• Weakness

  What is it limited to explain - Involuntary behaviours becoming associated with the new stimuli

  Why is this a weakness - Most human behaviour is voluntary and it lacks the meaning of complex human behaviours
• Weakness

  Why is CC environmentally deterministic - The environment isn't the only cause of behaviours and isn't a result of simple association
• Weakness

  Why is behaviourism reductionist-

  It's good because it is scientific, has a highly controlled experiments and established cause and consequence

  It's bad because it leaves out things that affect humans like thoughts, socialisation, intelligence and culture
• Weakness

  Why was the research limited - Was done on animals
• Weakness

  What did behaviourists not consider - The influence of thought, emotional states and cognitive processes in learning processes
• Weakness

  What did behaviourist refuse to study -Internal mental processes
• Failed to consider biology
• What did the Little Albert study fail to consider - Psychological harm to the child