BEHAVIOURISM

• three main assumptions of behaviourism

  • nearly all behaviour is learnt
  • animals and humans learn in the same ways
  • the mind is irrelevant
• behaviourism is known as learning theory and started in the early 1900s thanks to John Watson
• Watson thought earlier psychology wasn't scientific enough
• Watson tried to come up with a scientific approach to base psychology on
• behaviourists only observe quantifiable behaviour and ignore the internal mental processes of the organism
• behaviourist research uses lab experiments often on animals