Psychology Behavourist

PY1
APPROACHES

[pic]

BEHAVIOURIST APPROACH

[pic]Updated May 2012
AS Approaches – Behaviourist Approach

Classical Conditioning Worksheet1

[pic]

Description of Pavlov’s experiment:
Fill in the blanks

Pavlov carried out experiments on dogs where he was able to measure their

production of saliva. He found that the dogs salivated more when their ---------

was brought. He also noticed that the noise of the boots of their ‘feeder’

caused the dogs to ----------------. Pavlov investigated this further. He

sounded a bell before each time the dogs were fed. He found that the sound

of the bell caused ---------------------------------------------------------------------.

The above demonstrates the principles of classical conditioning.

Describe in your own words what you think classical conditioning means:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Classical conditioning involves an association between two stimuli and takes place when learning involves involuntary responses.

In Pavlov’s experiment identify the two stimuli that are associated:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What is the involuntary response?

AS Approaches – Behaviourist Approach Worksheet 2

Classical Conditioning – Watson and Rayner

[pic]

Describe how Watson and Rayner showed the principles of classical conditioning in a human participant

Discuss strengths and weaknesses of this experiment

AS Approaches – Behaviourist Approach Worksheet 3

Classical Conditioning – Stages of learning

Pavlov

Food Salivation
(Unconditioned stimulus) (Unconditioned response)

Food + Bell Salivation
(UCS) (Neutral) (UCR)

Bell Salivation
(Conditioned stimulus) (Conditioned response)

Now try to label the learning steps for the