Background: Alternative explanations to the medical model(Non-biological)

Question 1

What is the behaviourist explanation?

Answer 1

All behaviour is learnt through Social learning theory,Classical conditioning and Operant Conditioning.

Question 2

What is classical conditioning?

Answer 2

Where you pair a unconditioned stimulus with a conditioned stimulus.

Question 3

What study supports classical conditioning?

Answer 3

Little albert by Watson and Reynor.

Question 4

What did Watson and Reynor do?

Answer 4

•At 8months old, little albert was faced with a white fluffy rabbit( unconditioned stimulus)
•Every time little albert went to touch the rabbit, a steel bar would be banged behind his head (conditioned stimulus)
• After 5 presentations, little albert associated the white rabbit with the noise and developed a phobia.

Question 5

What is operant conditioning?

Answer 5

• humans learn through consequences.
•When we are rewarded we do the behaviour again.
• positive reinforcement
•Negative reinforcement

Question 6

What is the cognitive explanations?

Question 7

What is the psychodynamic explanation?