Key Approaches

Question 1

What is classical conditioning?

Answer 1

Learning by association. 2 stimuli create a response

Question 2

What is operant conditioning?

Answer 2

Learning through rewardist consequences

Question 3

Examples of classical conditioning

Answer 3

Pavlovs dogs, Little Albert

Question 4

Examples of operant conditioning

Answer 4

Skinner’s Box

Question 5

Is the behaviourist approach scientific?

Answer 5

Somewhat- high control of variables, checking for reliability

Question 6

What is a negative of the behaviourist approach being somewhat scientific?

Answer 6

Only observable behaviour is noted, so cognition is ignored

Question 7

What are the behaviourist approach’s practical applications?

Answer 7

Token economies are based off operant conditioning

Question 8

What is a negative of the scientific lab setting of behaviourist approach?

Answer 8

Lacks ecological validity

Question 9

What is the biological approach ?

Answer 9

Behaviour is influenced by genetic makeup and inheritance rather than being learnt

Question 10

What are some features of the biological approach?

Answer 10

Humans and their behaviour has evolved
Anything psychological is first biological

Question 11

What is the evolution of genes?

Answer 11

Weaker/maladaptive genes die out and adaptive genes survive