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• 3 assumptions of the behaviourist approach

  • we are born a blank slate 'tabula rasa'
  • humans/animals learn through association and reinforcement
  • only observable behaviour should be studied
• what is classical conditioning

  when you learn to associate one thing with another
• what is operant conditioning

  learning process depends on reward and punishment
• reinforcement


  pleasant punishment
• positive reinforcement

  providing something pleasant
• negative reinforcement

  avoiding a negative consequence
• punishment


  unpleasant punishment
• positive punishment


  providing something unpleasant
• negative punishment


  taking away something pleasant