A01

• assumptions

  • behaviourist psychologist Watson believes all behaviour is conditioned and learnt from our environment via experiences
  • behaviourism believes we are born with our minds as a tabula rasa
  • concerned with observable, scientifically measureable behaviour produced in lab studies
• classical conditioning

  • learning via assosiation-pavlov
  • a dog associated a bell with food, bell(NS)+food(UCS) produced a response of salivation(UCR)
  • once these were repeatedly paired together, the bell became the CS producing a conditoned response of salivation, even when food(UCS) was not present
• operant conditioning

  • learning via consequences- skinner using skinner box
  • when rats pressed lever food was released, therefore rats were postively reinforced to press the lever in order to gain the positive stimulus so kept doing so.|
  • rats were also taught to avoid negative shocks via negative reinforcement