Behaviourist AO3

• +Scientific/Gave psychology credibility

  – objective measurements of behaviour,

  e.g. amount of saliva, or Skinner’s box.
• +Real life application – used for

  treatments in psychiatry and in prisons

  (called token economy), or phobias

  (flooding and systematic desensitisation

  – link to research, these work (Gilroy).
• -Mechanistic view– views humans and

  animals are passive responders like

  machines devoid of emotion and perspective.
• -Environmental determinism– We are

  just the product of our conditioning -

  ignores conscious decision making.
• -Animal research - raises ethical

  considerations and may lack validity.

  Generalisability from dogs, cats may not be applicable to humans.