Behaviourist approach

• 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.