Behaviourist approach

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A weakness of the beaviourist approach
It is not concerned with mental processes
A strength of the behaviourist approach
It has scientific credibility as it has well-controlled research
Enviromental determinism
The behaviourist approach has enviromental determinism. They see all behaviour as governed by past conditioning experiences.
Ethical Issues
There has been ethical issues with past experiments related to the behaviourist approach. For example, in Skinners experiment, the rats used were kept hungry and underweight for the experiment.

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Behaviourist approach

Cards (4)

5.2.1 The Behaviourist Approach

5. Approaches in Psychology

5.5 The Psychodynamic Approach

5.6 The Humanistic Approach

5.4 The Biological Approach

5.3 The Cognitive Approach

5.2 Learning Approaches

5.7 Comparison of Approaches

5.5.3 Psychosexual Stages

5.5.4 Defence Mechanisms

1.1 The Sociological Approach

4.3.1 Marketing Approaches

5.2.2 Social Learning Theory

8.5 Idiographic and Nomothetic Approaches

16.2.1 The Top-Down Approach

4.5 The Cognitive Approach to Treating Depression

5.5.2 Structure of Personality

4.4 The Cognitive Approach to Explaining Depression

3.3 Comparative Approaches

1.4.1 Approaches to Staffing

4.2 The Behavioural Approach to Explaining Phobias