Behaviourist Approach

Question 1

What are the two types?

Answer 1

Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning

Question 2

What is classical conditioning?

Answer 2

Learnt through association

Question 3

What is operant conditioning?

Answer 3

Learnt through reinforcement

Question 4

What research supports classical conditioning?

Answer 4

Pavlov’s dogs

Question 5

What happened during conditioning?

Answer 5

Food (UCS) was the response to the dog salivating (UCR)

Question 6

What happened before conditioning?

Answer 6

The bell (NS) was the response to the dog not salivating (no CR)

Question 7

What happened when the bell rang when there was food

Answer 7

Dog salivated (UCR)

Question 8

What happened when the bell rang alone?

Answer 8

The bell is the conditioned stimulus and the dog salivated (CR)

Question 9

What research supports operant conditioning?

Answer 9

Skinner’s rats

Question 10

AO3: strengths

Answer 10

-very scientific
-real life application
-nurture side of the debate
-enables researchers to investigate the influence of environment

Question 11

AO3: limitations

Answer 11

-reductionist : ignores the role of biology
-ethical concerns
-use of animals
-can’t generalise to humans