GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
BEHAVIOURIST THEORIES
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Question
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All behaviour is learnt
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Humans can be seen as data processing systems
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Humans are born as a Tabula Rasa (blank slate)
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Mainly concerned with observable behaviour
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Detailed explanation-1: -Main assumptions of the Behaviourist Approach Description (AO1): Behaviour is learned from experience. Only observable behaviour is measurable scientifically and it is only these behaviours that should be studied. Animal research is valid as they share the same principles of learning as humans.
Detailed explanation-2: -One assumption of the behaviourist approach is that we are born as a blank slate (known as tabula rasa) and we learn everything from the environment. This assumptions believes that all humans, male and female, are born the same and it is the environment and social norms that shape our personality.
Detailed explanation-3: -Behaviorism focuses on the idea that all behaviors are learned through interaction with the environment. This learning theory states that behaviors are learned from the environment, and says that innate or inherited factors have very little influence on behavior.
Detailed explanation-4: -The main influences of behaviourist psychology were Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936), Edward Lee Thorndike (1874-1949), John B. Watson (1878-1958), and B.F. Skinner (1904-1990).