Behavourism Peel

Question 1

How has behaviourism been applied to the real world

Answer 1

Abnormalities arising from maladaptive or faulty learning
Causing inappropriate or destructive patterns of behaviour have been reinforced
Behaviour therapies such as systematic desensitisation
Successfully applied to treatment of phobias

Question 2

How is behaviourism deterministic

Answer 2

Sees all behaviour as environmentally determined by external influences
We are unable to control
The consequences of behaviour (reinforcement history)
Determines the likely hood of behaviour reoccurring

Question 3

How is behaviourism reductionist

Answer 3

It is reductionist
It breaks up complex behaviour into stimulus-response units for ease of testing in the lab

Question 4

How does behaviourism show psychology as a science

Answer 4

It is positively committed to a scientific method as it is highly objective and experimental based
Focuses on responses that can be accurately measured
Aligns itself with a rigour of scientific methods more then other approaches
High degree of replication
Important part of a scientific process

Question 5

Is behaviourism nature or nurture and hwy

Answer 5

Argues that the origins of behaviour is nurture
It is a consequence of our interactions with the environment + consequences within that environment