Behaviourist perspective Flashcards
What are the 3 key assumptions of the behaviourist perspective?
What does Tabula rise mean?
1)
- The importance of observable events in research (focus research on what they can see + measure - not emotions).
- The role of the environment (were born as a blank slate - environment causes everything about you).
- We acquire our behaviour through learning (classical conditioning/operant conditioning/observational learning).
2) Born as a blank slate.
ASSUMPTION 3:
Define ‘classical conditioning’
Define ‘operant conditioning’
Define ‘observational learning’
1) An association is formed between a stimuli creating a learned response.
2) Once a child has observed and imitated a behaviour, this behaviour can then be maintained through direct reinforcement.
3) Behaviour is explained through our own direct experience + our observation of the experiences of other people.
Define meditational processes?
What are the 4 meditational processes?
1) Mental factors that intervene in the learning process to determine wether a new behaviour is acquired or not.
2) - Attention
- Retention
- Reproduction
- Motivation
MEDITATIONAL PROCESSES
Define ‘attention’
Define ‘retention’
Define ‘reproduction’
Define motivation’
1) To the extent which we are exposed/notice the behaviour. Behaviour has to grab our attention to be imitated.
2) How well the behaviour is remembered.
3) The ability to perform the behaviour that the model has just demonstrated.
4) The will to perform the behaviour.
What other factors can affect the likelihood of being imitated? (4)
How can consequences influence us to imitate behaviour?
1) - Same age/older
- Same gender
- High status
- Friendly
2) Punishment = less likely to produce the behaviour ourselves.
Rewarded = more likely to produce the behaviour.
What is vicarious reinforcement?
What is vicarious punishment?
What is vicarious extinction?
1) Reinforcement (received indirectly) by observing another person be rewarded for a behaviour.
2) Stopping a behaviour after observing another person be punished.
3) Stopping a behaviour after observing another person receive no reward for it.
