behaviourist

• classical conditioning - learning by association, pavlovs dogs, associating two stimuli together
• operant conditioning - learn by reward and punishment, skinners rats
• social learning theory - ARRM
• incorporates the fundamental theories of learning
• schizophrenia is the result of faulty learning
• lack or reinforcement or an abundance of punishment in early childhood can cause an individual to focus on irrelevant environmental cues
• punishment leads to withdrawal which earns negative labelling which leads to individuals adopting odd behaviour which attracts attention and reinforces behaviour
• liberman


  schizophrenia is due to reduced reinforcement and increased punishment which causes an extreme need for reinforcement