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Outline The Main Theories Of A Behaviourist

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The main theories of behaviourist such as Pavlov, Skinner and Watson is that behaviour is a response to conditioning or reinforcement and that they are all linked to a stimulus. They also believe that nearly all behaviour is acquired through the environment therefore all humans are born as tabula rasa. This suggests that humans do not have a mind of their own but that of their environmental and that person or animal can only go as far as their environment will take them. Watson famously said ‘’give me a dozen healthy infants… and I will guarantee to train them into any specialist or even a beggar’’. McLeod, S. A. (2014). Classical Conditioning. Retrieved from www.simplypsychology.org/classical-conditioning.html this supports behaviourists
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