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Psychology A-level - approaches

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A strength of behaviourist approach?

Author: (Pippa) Pippa Holloway



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-applied to real-world behaviour and problems -eg: the idea of operant conditioning is the basis of a toekn economy system, which has been very successfil in institutions like prisonsnad psychiatric facicilies. Work by rewarding appropriate behaviour with tokens that can be rewarded for privileges -Eg: classical conditioning has been applied ot the treatment of phobias like systematic desensitation and flooding -Increases the value of the behaviourist approach bc it has widepsread application, like the successful treatment of phobias


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