Behaviorist Response Paper

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The Behavioral approach is explaining behavior through observation and believes that peoples surroundings and up bringing cause how they behave good or bad, they believe what people do is determined by the environment. Behaviorist regard all behavior as a response to a stimulus. People learn to act to stimulus in certain ways. Behaviorist also believe humans are born only with a few stimulus responses that are not learnt. The human learning process is the same as other animals. Behaviorists use two processes to explain how people learn: Classical conditioning and Operant conditioning. Classical conditioning, is when people learn to link two stimuli occurring jointly. (Pavlov 1897 cited in McLeod 2014). Pavlov’s experiment with dogs. Whenever