Behavioural Approach Flashcards
Explain Behaviourism
All behaviour is learnt and nothing is innate - we are born as a blank state
Classical conditioning is learnt via:
Association
Pavlov’s Dog: Before conditioning
Food: UCS
Food = Salivation: UCR
Tuning fork: NR
Pavlov’s Dog: During conditioning
- Food + tuning = Salivation
Pavlov’s Dog: After conditioning
Tuning fork: CS
Tuning fork: = Salivation: CR
Operant Conditioning is learnt via:
Reinforcement
Describe positive reinforcement
Rewarded
Therefore - behaviour repeated
Describe negative reinforcement
Avoid negative stimulus through performing behaviour
Therefore - behaviour repeated
Describe punishment
Consequences to your behaviour
therefore: not likely to repeat the behaviour
What’s the first stage of Skinner’s Rat
Rats in a box with a lever
Everytime rats were in 1 half of the box with lever:
rats rewarded a sugar pellet
Skinner changed this so if the rats were in 1/4 of the box, and made this smaller every time. Until eventually:
Rats would press the lever to a receive a sugar pellet
What reinforcement was Skinner’s rat done under?
Positive reinforcement`
Which scientist used classical conditioning?
Pavlov with Pavlov’s dog
Which scientist used operant conditioning?
Skinner with Skinner’s rat
Give a brief explanation of Little Albert’s rat phobia
Neutral Stimulus: rat Unconditioned stimulus: when rat foes up to child a noise is made Unconditioned response: fear & panic Conditioned stimulus: all rats Conditioned response: fear of rats