behaviourist

• Behaviourists believe that learning is the same in all species
• Extreme nurture end of nature-nurture debate ( believes we are products of our environment)
• Argues for psychology to be scientific it should focus on observable behaviour which can be objectively measured rather than on things like cognitive process which can only be inferred rejected the Wundt and the idea of introspection
• Behaviourists relied on control and objectivity – lab experiments are the best way to achieve this
• Born as blank state (tabula rosa) everything shaped from learning and environment