Behaviourism

• All behaviour is learnt.
• Behavioural assumptions : All behaviour is learnt, The mind is irrelevant, you are born as a blank slate.
• Classical conditioning works through association.
• Classical conditioning provides explanations of acquiring phobias and forming attachments.
• The neutral stimulus turns into the conditioned stimulus, post classical conditioning.
• What is the second stage of classical conditioning?

  Unconditioned stimulus = unconditioned response
• In pavlov's study, what was the neutral stimulus?

  Bell
• In Pavlov's study, what is the unconditioned stimulus?

  Food.
• IN Pavlov's study what is the unconditioned response?


  Salivation.
• In Pavlov's study, what was the conditioned response?


  Salivation.
• Pavlov demonstrated that repeated exposure to a stimulus, causes learned uncontrollable behaviour. This can explain atypical behaviour, like addiction.
• Operant conditioning works through reinforcement
• What animal did Skinner use for his study?

  Rats
• Skinner found that positive reinforcement occurs when a behaviour is rewarded, making them more likely to repeat the behaviour.
• Negative reinforcement is when behaviour is followed by the removal of a punishment, meaning it's more likely to be repeated.
• Punishment of a behaviour makes it less likely to be repeated.
• In skinner's box, the positive reinforcement was a leaver that dispensed food . Punishment was a small electric shock.