Behaviorism And The Learning Perspective In Psychology

To commence with, the learning perspective in psychology is based on how individuals are affected by the environment and experience. This perspective is about the actions that individuals and non-human animals do or respond with; and both Carol Wade and Carol Tavris state that “within this perspective, behaviourists focus on the environment rewards and punishers that maintain or discourage specific behaviors” (2012). The learning perspective is used and found everywhere because we all tend to learn from the environment and experiences and we all react differently depending on the situation. Learning is a part of life and it’s something that we cannot control, even if we even think of trying; all we can do is to learn how to face them. The learning …show more content…
The two theories that it uses are: Behaviorism and the Social-Cognitive Learning Theories, which both help to assist individuals to understand the learning perspective more and also to understand their actions towards different instances/situations that they face.
In addition, it is found in my major which is Business Science and the students under this field tend to use this theory daily with different tasks that we must do complete, and we also use this theory to help us know how to deal with daily troubles that we face in both school and the environment. For example, the learning perspective can be used in an Accounting class, where if you do different transactions, you must learn how to place the right transaction in its appropriate account because if …show more content…
In other words, “behaviorists would analyze the environmental factors that are rewarding your giving in to distractions or that are encouraging your outbursts” and they do not focus on your personality or your inner-self, they focus on your actions and reactions to those actions (Carol Wade, 2012). Your behavior is what matters in this theory and the behaviorists take your actions to be who you really are and how you would more than likely react to different scenarios that would occur in your life. Each individual respond differently than others to the same scenario, for example, some students tend to detest different topics in a certain class, whilst others tend to like the subject; and there are some scenarios where people see fights and would rather run away from it, while others rather stay and observe it and tend to enjoy watching it. Another example would be when some children are afraid of clowns and others find them very entertaining, but when those afraid actually get to meet them, they might eventually like them; therefore, the behaviorism in this scenario is showing that children tend to respond to things or other individuals by how they look, but later on can