Definitions

• List the two types of conditioning

  Classical conditioning, operant conditioning
• Assumptions of behaviourism

  Behaviour is the result of environment

  Nurture

  Observable and measurable

  Lab experiments - controlled, scientific, objective

  Learning is the same across species
• Classical Conditioning

  Behaviour is learnt through association

  Discovered by Pavlov
• Operant conditioning

  Skinner suggested that we learn through consequences
• Differences of classical and operant conditioning

  Response is involuntary in classical conditioning, voluntary in operant conditioning

  Responses are reinforced in operant conditioning, not in classical conditioning

  Classical conditioning explains acquisition of response, operant conditioning explains that maintenance of response
• List the consequences in operant conditioning

  Positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement and punishment