4. The Learning Approach AO3

Question 1

Name two limitations of the learning approach

Answer 1

1. Ethical issues

2. Behaviourism is a form of environmental determinism

Question 2

Explain why ethical issues are a problem for the learning approach

Answer 2

Animals exposed to stressful conditions - could have affected how they reacted to experimental conditions

Question 3

What can be concluded if there are ethical issues with the learning approach

Answer 3

Validity could be questioned due to behaviour not being normal

Question 4

Name a strength of the learning approach

Answer 4

Laws have real life applications

Question 5

Explain real life applications of the learning approach

Answer 5

Token economy systems - reward appropriate behaviour with tokens - exchanged for privileges

Question 6

Where do token economies work successfully

Answer 6

work successfully in prisons and psychiatric wards

Question 7

Explain how behaviourism is a form of determinism

Answer 7

Sees all behaviour as determined by experience that has been conditioned

Question 8

What does behaviourism ignore

Answer 8

ignores any influence that free will may have on behaviour

Question 9

What did skinner suggest about free will

Answer 9

It was an illusion

Question 10

What did skinner suggest about decision making

Answer 10

When something happens we impose a sense of having made the decision - but our past conditioning actually determined the outcome

Question 11

Why is determinism such a problem for the learning approach

Answer 11

Is an extreme position - ignores indulgence of conscious decision making processes on behaviour