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Behaviourist Approach - Coggle Diagram
Behaviourist Approach
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Evaluations
(+) Produced successful treatments: Systematic desensitisation: eliminating anxious response associated with feared object and replacing the maladaptive learned responses with a positive response.
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(+) Strong empirical evidence: only observable behaviour should be studied - experiments are the main method of investigation.
(-) Favours nurture side: behaviour learned through operant and classical conditioning and ignored wealth of evidence of biological approach
(-) Deterministic: Product of external influences and the individual cannot control these processes and cannot be held responsible for their own behaviour and is caused by factors out of out control - humans have free will and can choose how they act.
Assumptions
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Only observable behaviour is measurable scientifically and it is only these behaviours that should be studied as though processes are subjective and difficult to test
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The basis processes that govern learning are the same in all species - valid to study the behaviour of animals as they share the same principles as humans
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