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Approach ignores important mental proceses involved in learning.
Reductionist:
Only takes into account nurture.
Rules out any influence of anything else.
Deterministic- ignores free will.
Lack of ecological validity due to highly controlled experiments- issues with generalisability.
Ethical issues:
Not all research meets ethical guidelines.
Little Albert wasn't counter conditioned.
No protection from physical or psychological harm.
Much data has been obtained from species such as rats, dogs and pigeons but the relevance of these findings to human behaviour is dubious.

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Limitations

Cards (6)

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5. Approaches in Psychology

5.5 The Psychodynamic Approach

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5.5.4 Defence Mechanisms

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5.1 Origins of Psychology

Edexcel GCSE Psychology

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4.3.1 Marketing Approaches

4.1.3 Philosophical Behaviorism

1.2 Limitation of physical measurements

Unit 4: Social Psychology and Personality

2.3 Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology

5. Sports psychology