A limitation of the approach is that the animals involved were exposed to stressful and aversive conditions which may have affected how they reacted to the experimental situation
Ethics
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A limitation is that the approach may be inaccurate- cognitive and social learning theory explain that we play a more active role in our learning- perhaps animals are not passive and machine like
Mechanistic
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Ignores free will- all behaviour is the sum total of our reinforcement history
Environmental Determinist
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A strength is that it explains phobias and has introduced token economy systems
Real life application
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Behaviorism was able to bring the language and methods of the natural sciences into psycholog
Scientific credibility
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A limitation is that the approach may be inaccurate- cognitive and social learning theory explain that we play a more active role in our learning- perhaps animals are not passive and machine like
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Ignores free will- all behaviour is the sum total of our reinforcement history
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A strength is that it explains phobias and has introduced token economy systems
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Behaviorism was able to bring the language and methods of the natural sciences into psycholog
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