Behaviourism

What type of behaviour are behaviourist psychologist interested in

Observable

Is it scientific

Yes

What is classical conditioning

Learning through association

Pairing a neural stimulus and a unconditioned response

Who looked into classical conditioning

Pavlovs dog experiment

What is operant conditioning

Learning through reward and punishment

What are the 3 types of reinforcement and what is it

Positive-reward behaviour

Negative-avoid unpleasant behaviour

Punishment-unpleasant consequences

Who looked into operant conditioning

Skinner rat

What are limitations of behaviourism

Lacks population validity-animal study-counter behaviourism believe learning is same for all species

Ethical issues-animal kept in stressful conditions

What are positive of behaviourism

Real world application-token economy

Scientific and controlled experiments-increase reliability and accuracy