The Behaviourist Approach
Key terms
Little and often is the rule for
revision!
• Which B studied social learning?
Bandura
• Which A was trained to be afraid of
white rats?
Little Albert
• What I means studying thinking by
looking at one’s own mental processes?
Introspection
• What S invented an experimental box?
Skinner
• What R describes an overall pleasant
consequence of a stimulus?
Reinforcement
• Which P investigated classical
conditioning?
Pavlov
• What D refers to the ability to tell the
difference between two similar stimuli?
Discrimination
• What G refers to a process of
behaviour being repeated in similar but
different situations?
Generalisation
• What CR is produced when there is a
conditioned stimulus?
Conditioned response
• What M is one of the processes in
social learning?
Motivation
• Which SH was the site of a study into
the effects of the introduction of
satellite television to a remote
community?
St Helena
• What I is behaviour that is copied from
others?
Imitate
• What AT is a treatment using
behavioural theory?
Aversion therapy
• What SD is a treatment using the
principle of classical conditioning?
Systematic desensitisation
• What OT is when new behaviours are
acquired as a result of reinforcement?
Operant conditioning