A theory that claims that knowledge arises from sense experience.
What is empiricism?
100
A form of associative learning.
What is classical conditioning?
100
A very famous study that gave rise to the learning perspective in USA.
What is Watson's study of "Little Albert" (1920)?
100
This is the main strength of the learning perspective.
What is that it is highly scientific in its research methods?
100
A specific method used to treat phobias.
What is systematic desensitization/ exposure therapy/ virtual reality (VR)?
200
Two assumptions of the learning perspective.
What is only observable behavior should be studied and all behavior is learned from the environment after birth?
200
Thorndike's concept that a response followed by satisfying consequences will become more likely to occur, whereas a response followed by unsatisfying consequences will become less likely to occur.
What is the law of effect?
200
This special chamber was used to study operant conditioning experimentally.
What is a Skinner box?
200
Two criticisms of using animals in research.
What is the criticism that it is unethical and that there is a biologically qualitative difference between humans and animals?
200
A specific method used to treat alcoholism which is based on Garcia's study (1966).
What is aversion therapy?
300
Two psychologists whose research gave rise to the learning perspective.
Who were Pavlov and Watson?
300
A type of learning in which behavior is influenced by the consequences that follow it.
What is operant conditioning?
300
This was investigated by a famous study in which the learning perspective integrated with the cognitive perspective.
What is the social learning theory (Bandura, 1961)?
300
The main weakness of the learning perspective.
What is that it ignores innate factors such as genes and internal mental processes?
300
An application of classical conditioning.
What is advertisement?
400
The assumption that allows the learning perspective to conduct research on animals.
What is the assumption that all species learn the same way?
400
The concept that describes that we are born as a blank slate.
What is tabula rasa?
400
This was investigated in Garcia's study with rats, sweet water, a bright light and a buzzer (1966).
What is biological preparedness?
400
Two research methods that are used in the learning perspective which makes data very reliable.
What are laboratory experiments and observations?
400
An application of operant conditioning.
What is child rearing/ animal training/ token economy?
500
An area that influenced psychologists of the learning perspective to study only observable behavior using scientific and objective methods of investigation.
What are the physical sciences?
500
In classical conditioning, a concept which occurs when a conditioned stimulus is presented without the unconditioned stimulus, causing the conditioned response to weaken and eventually stop occuring.
What is extinction?
500
A study that showed that when not having control over a situation we are likely to eventually stop trying to escape the situation.
What is Seligman's study when he gave electric shocks to dogs (1967)?
500
Why the learning perspective is not as highly influential today.
What is the research of internal mental processes due to technological progresses?
500
The units which the learning perspective studies in favor of reductionism.