Behaviourist

• the behaviourist approach has three main assumptions

  • that psychology should only study observable behaviours
  • that most behaviour is learned
  • that we can use animal research to reach conclusions about human behaviour due to having shared learning mechanisms
• Classical conditioning is a process of learning, where a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus, through repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus.
• Operant conditioning is a process of learning, where an association is made between an action and an behavioural outcome.