Behaviourist Approach Flashcards
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Thé behaviourist approach
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- believes we learn to behave in response to our environment
- either by stimulus response association or as a result of reinforcement
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Important contributors to the behaviourist approach
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- Ivan Pavlov ( classical conditioning)
- bf skinner ( operant conditioning)
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Behaviourist
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- people who believe human behaviour can be explained in terms of conditioning
- without need to consider thoughts or feelings
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Punishment
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- involves application of an unpleasant consequence following a behaviour
- result = behaviour is less likely to occur again in future
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Reinforcement
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- term used in psychology to refer to anything that strengthens a response
- increases likelihood that it will occur again in future
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Imitation
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-action of using someone or something as a model and copying their behaviour
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Méditational processes
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- refer to internal mental processes that exist between environmental stimuli and response
- made by an individual to those stimuli
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Modelling
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-form of learning where individuals learn a particular behaviour by observing another individual performing that behaviour
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Social learning theory
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-learning through observing others and imitating behaviour that are rewarded
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Vicarious reinforcement
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- learning that isn’t a result of direct reinforcement of behaviour
- but through observing someone else being reinforced for that behaviour
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Behaviourist approach behaviourism applications
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- Behaviorism has increased our understanding of causes of phobias & attachment
- given rise to therapies such as systematic desensitisation & token economy
