Outline and evaluate the behavioural approach to psychopathology. (12 marks) Behaviourists believe that all of a person’s complex behaviours are the result of learning through interaction with the environment. Behaviourists deal with the following forms of learning: classical conditioning and operant conditioning. In classical conditioning people learn to associate two stimuli when they occur together‚ such that the response originally elicited by one stimulus is transferred to another. The person
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Behavioural Approach Behaviourism‚ otherwise known as the behaviourist approach‚ was the key concept in psychology between the 1920’s to 1950. Methodology and behavioural analysis were the underlying assumptions on which it was founded on (McLeod‚ 2007). Observable behaviour (i.e. external behaviour) is the basis of behaviourism. This behaviour is unlike thinking and emotion which links to internal events. These events (such as thinking) should be explained through behavioural terms or eliminated
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Discuss the Behavioural Approach to psychopathology. The behavioural approach to psychopathology suggests that only observational behaviour is important in trying to distinguish abnormal behaviour and like any other behaviour it is learnt through social learning and the processes of conditioning. Classical conditioning‚ ‘learning through association’ and operant conditioning‚ ‘learning through reinforcement’ are the two types of processes of conditioning used to show abnormal behaviour. Classical
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it should become more like a science so that theories could be tested and proved right or wrong to make it more valid. One advantage of using the scientific method in psychology is that it can be falsified. This means that it can be proven wrong. The aim of the scientific method is to test a hypothesis by falsifying it i.e. rejecting the null hypothesis. This is an advantage because it is not possible to prove a hypothesis correct but you can prove it wrong. For example the main objection to Freud’s
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In my opinion‚ the second approach – the philosophy-laden approach – is better‚ as it aims to create a positive work environment that yields employee satisfaction. The company takes into consideration environmental factors (location and demographics of the company)‚ substantive or practical policies and company characteristics. All of these factors lead to a particular culture of trust and cooperation which result in several positive outcomes‚ including a reluctance to join unions‚ avoidance of
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Advantages of the Database Approach * == Data Independence == * The data is held in such a way that changes to the structure of the database do not effect any of the programs used to access the data. * == Consistency of Data == * Each item of data is held only once therefore no danger of item being updated on one system and not on another. * == Control Over Redundancy == * In a non-database system‚ the same information may be held on several files. This wastes space
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Outline and Evaluate the Behavioural Approach to Psychopathology The behavioural model concentrates only on behaviours and the responses a person makes to their environment‚ these can be external or internal. Behaviourists have tended to focus their attention on the role of external events and behaviours as these are more observable and therefore make gaining results easier. This means that not all aspects of abnormality are considered‚ a weakness of the approach as it is selective in its research
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Name: Voon Hui Sen Tutorial Group: 4 Question: Discuss how today’s managers use the behavioural approach. Managers today use various methods to apply behaviour approach. They need to identify the reasons that influence the performance of their employees. One of the ways that managers practice is observing the action and interactions through CCTV (closed-circuit television). Through the CCTV‚ the managers can some sort know what the employees did during they work. Whether they are performing
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Behavioural Finance Petere Dybdahl Hede Behavioural finance is an add-on paradigm of finance‚ which seeks to supplement the standard theories of finance by introducing behavioural aspects to the decision-making process. Behavioural finance deals with individuals and ways of gathering and using information. Martin Sewell Behavioural finance is the study of the influence of psychology on the behavioural of financial practitioners and subsequent effect on markets. Anastasios Konstantinidis
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Behavioural Finance Martin Sewell University of Cambridge February 2007 (revised April 2010) Abstract An introduction to behavioural finance‚ including a review of the major works and a summary of important heuristics. 1 Introduction Behavioural finance is the study of the influence of psychology on the behaviour of financial practitioners and the subsequent effect on markets. Behavioural finance is of interest because it helps explain why and how markets might be inefficient. For more information
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