Behaviouralist

• Basic assumptions

  Learning from environment

  • Classical + Operant conditioning

  Only observable behaviour important

  No conscious activity involved in learning

  Learnt can be unlearnt

  Better for external behavioural focused disorders.
• Pavlov (1890)

  A) Unconditioned stimulus

  B) Salivating

  C) Neutral stimulus (Bell)

  D) Conditioned stimuli

  E) Conditioned response

  
• Watson - response theory.

  Rejected introspective approaches.

  • impossible to be impartial to internal analysis of self.

  Psych focus on human behaviour and what has direct effect on it.

  Environment drives human behaviour.

  Human interaction + Action = Stimulus response relationships
• Thorndike's law of effect.

  Behaviour followed by favourable consequences

  • More likely repeated

  Behaviour followed by unfavourable consequences

  • Less likely repeated

  Observed cats attempting to escape box quickly.
• Skinner's box (1930)

  A) Punishment

  B) Reward

  C) Stimuli

  D) response