behaviourist ao3

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weaknesses of behaviourist

  • animal studies may not apply to humans

  • disregards nature


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strengths of behaviourist

  • useful application (phobia treatment)


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weakness - animal studies

  • studies mostly conducted on animals

  • humans have more complex brains (exercise more choice)

  • studies on humans (little albert) small sample, not generalisable

  • can’t be sure principles accurately explain human behaviour


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weakness - disregards nature

  • disregards nature

  • says humans arrive as a blank slate, no innate abilities

  • mental illnesses run in families, even when children adopted + raised by diff family

  • wrong to claim nature has no contributions to explaining behaviour


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strength - application

  • phobia treatment

  • if CC creates phobias, it can get rid of them

  • exposure therapies (flooding + systematic desensitisation) have been developed

  • cures phobias, better quality of life