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Learning approaches: The behaviourist approach Flashcards

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1
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The behaviourist approach is only interested in studying behaviour that can be…

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observed and measured

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True/False: The behaviourist approach is not concerned with investigating mental processes of the mind

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True

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Early behaviourists accepted/rejected introspection

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rejected

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Why is the behaviourist approach not concerned with investigating mental processes of the mind?

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These were seen as irrelevant

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Why did early behaviourists reject introspection?

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It involved too many concepts that were vague and difficult to measure

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Behaviourists tried to maintain what with their research?

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Control and objectivity

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How did behaviourists achieve control and objectivity with their research?

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Relying on lab studies

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Behaviourists believe that all behaviour is…

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learned

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How would behaviourists describe a baby’s mind?

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A ‘blank slate’ that is written on by experience

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The behaviourist approach suggests that the basic processes that govern what are the same in all species?

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Learning

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In behaviourist research what replaces humans as experimental subjects?

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Animals

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How many important forms of learning are identified in the behaviourist approach?

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2

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Name the two forms of learning as identified by the behaviourist approach

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Classical and operant conditioning

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Classical conditioning is learning through…

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association

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Who was classical conditioning first demonstrated by?

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Pavlov

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How did Pavlov first demonstrate classical conditioning?

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Showing how dogs could be conditioned to salivate to the sound of a bell

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Pavlov showed that dogs could be conditioned to salivate to the sound of a bell if…

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that sound was present at the time they were given food

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What did Pavlov’s dogs gradually learn?

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To associate the sound of the bell with the food

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The bell and food in Pavlov’s experiment were what?

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Stimuli

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In Pavlov’s experiment, the bell and food would produce..

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the salivation response every time they heard the sound

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Pavlov was able to show how a neutral stimulus…

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can elicit a new learned response (conditioned response

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What was the neutral stimulus in Pavlov’s experiment?

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The bell

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Skinner suggested that learning is an active/passive process

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active

24
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Skinner suggested that learning is an active process whereby humans and animals do what?

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Operate on their environment

25
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Positive reinforcement

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Receiving a reward when a certain behaviour is performed

26
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Praise from a teacher for answering a question correctly in class is an example of what in terms of operant conditioning?

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Positive reinforcement

27
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A student handing in an essay to avoid being told off is an example of what in terms of operant conditioning?

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Negative reinforcement

28
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Negative reinforcement occurs when…

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an animal (or human) avoids something unpleasant and is therefore in receipt of a positive experience

29
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A rat may learn through what that pressing a lever leads to avoidance of an electric shock?

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Negative reinforcement

30
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Punishment

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An unpleasant consequence of behaviour

31
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Finding way to avoid being shouted at by a teacher is an example of what?

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Negative reinforcement

32
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Operant conditioning states that behaviour is shaped by what?

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Its consequences

33
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Positive and negative reinforcement increases/decreases the likelihood that behaviour will be repeated

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increases

34
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Punishment increases/decreases the likelihood that behaviour will be repeated

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decreases

35
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Give an example of where operant conditioning has been applied to real-world behaviours and problems

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Token economies or treatment of phobias

36
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What is the basis of token economy systems?

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Operant conditioning

37
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True/False: Operant conditioning has been used in token economy systems successfully, in institutions such as prisons and psychiatric wards

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True

38
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How do token economy systems work?

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By rewarding appropriate behaviour with tokens that can be exchanged for privileges

39
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Give an example of where classical conditioning has been applied to real-world behaviours and problems

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Treatment of phobias

40
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The fact that principles of conditioning have been applied to real-world behaviours and problems does what for the behaviourist approach’s widespread application?

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Increases its value

41
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Procedures such as Skinner’s box allowed behaviourists to maintain a high degree of what?

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Control over their experimental ‘subjects’

42
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Why may the ethics of procedures such as Skinner’s box be questioned?

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Animals were housed in harsh, cramped conditions and deliberately kept below their natural weight so they were always hungry

43
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True/False: In Skinner’s procedure, he deliberately kept rats above their natural weight so they weren’t hungry

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False, he deliberately kept them below their natural weight so they were always hungry

44
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True/False: The behaviourist approach is based on well-controlled research

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True

45
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The behaviourist approach focused on the measurement of observable behaviour within what?

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Highly controlled lab settings

46
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How did behaviourists remove all other possible extraneous variables in their research?

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By breaking down behaviour into basic stimulus-response units

47
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How were cause-and-effect relationships established in behaviourist research?

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By removing all other possible extraneous variables through breaking down behaviour into basic stimulus-response units

48
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The fact that behaviourism is based on well-controlled research suggests…

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that behaviourist experiments have scientific credibility

49
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How may have behaviourists oversimplified the learning process?

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By reducing behaviour to such simple components

50
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What is the important influence on learning that behaviourists may have ignored?

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Human thought

51
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The fact that other approaches such as social learning theory and the cognitive approach have drawn attention to the mental processes involved in learning suggests what about learning?

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It is more complex than observable behaviour alone and private mental processes are also essential - something not addressed by the behaviourist approach

52
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Behaviourism sees all behaviour as what conditioned by what?

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Past conditioning experiences

53
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Skinner suggested that everything we do is the sum total of our what?

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Reinforcement history

54
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When something happens we may think ‘I made the decision to do that’. According to Skinner, what determined this outcome?

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Our past conditioning history

55
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What did Skinner say about free will?

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It is an illusion

56
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Skinner’s view that free will is an illusion is an extreme position that ignores what?

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The influence of conscious decision-making processes on behaviour

57
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Behaviourism sees all behaviour as conditioned by past conditioning experiences. What is this an example of?

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Environmental determinism

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