Throughout this essay two psychological perspectives are going to be highlighted. These are, behavioural and cognitive.
The behavioural perspective is also known as the behaviourist; this outlines how behaviour is affected by the environment around us. Behaviourists believe that all behaviour depends on a response to a stimulus; the stimulus is the event that takes place and the response is how we behave after this. As well as this behaviour is based on positive and negative influences. "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I 'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select -- doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even …show more content…
Just like the behaviourist approach this was also carried out in labs and many experiments were carried out to show how this works. Carrying work out in the lab can be a benefit as many factors such as controlled conditions, ability to measure objectively and replication can be followed. (Walker, J 2012). A weakness of the cognitive approach is that it compares the human to a computer, and ignores the complication of the human process of thinking. As well as this another weakness is that the experiments carried out do not compare to real life behaviour as they are again carried out in labs. The environment in a lab is different to real life and factors in the lab can be changed. Factors such as genetics are not taken into account when analysing this approach, therefore it is ‘unrealistic and over hypothetical.’ …show more content…
Watson carried out an experiment on ‘Little Albert’. The results of his experiment showed that he could create fear from a certain object, that once was not fearful at all; this was through noises Albert was afraid of. Classical conditioning within a classroom can be used if a child has a positive experience within school they will have good results, but on other hands if the child has a negative attitude towards school they will result to having lower results than expected.. Watson thought that behaving in a certain way when learning will result to many findings, for example if a certain individual comes to school with a negative attitude they will be less likely to want to work well in school and result to poor grades. Operant conditioning is used well with younger children and people with learning difficulties. Supporting the child and giving positive compliments after doing something good, will result to the child wanting to do more positive as they want more praise. The behavioural approach can be used through learning and teaching by setting outcomes at the start of the lesson and making sure they are met by the end. Positive reinforcements, when an individual behaves well and gets rewards for it an example of this is the sticker chart. When a child behaves well in class for a certain reason they will be given a
The behavioural perspective is also known as the behaviourist; this outlines how behaviour is affected by the environment around us. Behaviourists believe that all behaviour depends on a response to a stimulus; the stimulus is the event that takes place and the response is how we behave after this. As well as this behaviour is based on positive and negative influences. "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I 'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select -- doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even …show more content…
Just like the behaviourist approach this was also carried out in labs and many experiments were carried out to show how this works. Carrying work out in the lab can be a benefit as many factors such as controlled conditions, ability to measure objectively and replication can be followed. (Walker, J 2012). A weakness of the cognitive approach is that it compares the human to a computer, and ignores the complication of the human process of thinking. As well as this another weakness is that the experiments carried out do not compare to real life behaviour as they are again carried out in labs. The environment in a lab is different to real life and factors in the lab can be changed. Factors such as genetics are not taken into account when analysing this approach, therefore it is ‘unrealistic and over hypothetical.’ …show more content…
Watson carried out an experiment on ‘Little Albert’. The results of his experiment showed that he could create fear from a certain object, that once was not fearful at all; this was through noises Albert was afraid of. Classical conditioning within a classroom can be used if a child has a positive experience within school they will have good results, but on other hands if the child has a negative attitude towards school they will result to having lower results than expected.. Watson thought that behaving in a certain way when learning will result to many findings, for example if a certain individual comes to school with a negative attitude they will be less likely to want to work well in school and result to poor grades. Operant conditioning is used well with younger children and people with learning difficulties. Supporting the child and giving positive compliments after doing something good, will result to the child wanting to do more positive as they want more praise. The behavioural approach can be used through learning and teaching by setting outcomes at the start of the lesson and making sure they are met by the end. Positive reinforcements, when an individual behaves well and gets rewards for it an example of this is the sticker chart. When a child behaves well in class for a certain reason they will be given a