BEHAVIOUR

MODEL OF
PSYCHOLOGY
The Behaviour Model
What is it?
 The Behaviour Model of
Abnormality
★ This model was proposed by B.F. Skinner and John B. Watson.
★ The main idea of this model was that-

Normal and Abnormal behaviour is learned, and can be

unlearned.

The Psychological disorders are a result of these

learned maladaptive behaviours.
Key ideas used in the model

Classical Operant
Modeling
conditioning conditioning
Learning through Learning through a Learning through
temporal association reward system, where observation and imitation
when 2 events the desirable actions alone, without specific
repeatedly occur are rewarded and the verbal direction
together at the same undesired, punished.
time.
 Bandura’s Experiment- Modeling
★ Baduras and his colleagues performed an experiment to prove Bandura's
Social Learning theory- how actions and behaviours can be learned
through observation and modeling.
★ For the experiment, the participants were 36 young buoys and 36 young girls.
○ Group 1= 24 children watched a male/female model behaving
aggressively towards a toy called a “Bobo doll”. The adults attacked the
Bobo doll in a distinctive manner – they used a hammer in some cases,
and in others threw the doll in the air and shouted “Pow, Boom.”
○ Group 2= 24 children were exposed to a non-aggressive model who
played in a quiet and subdued manner for 10 minutes (playing with a
tinker toy set and ignoring the bobo-doll).
○ Group 3= The final 24 children were used as a control group and not
exposed to any model at all.
 Conclusions:
★ Children who observed the aggressive model made far more imitative
aggressive responses than those who were in the non-aggressive or
control groups.
★ There was more partial and non-imitative aggression among those
children who had observed aggressive behavior, although the difference
for non-imitative aggression was small.
★ The girls in the aggressive model condition also showed more physically
aggressive responses if the model was male, but more verbally
aggressive responses if the model was female. However, the exception to
this general pattern was the observation of how often they punched
Bobo, and in this case the effects of gender were reversed.
★ Boys were more likely to imitate same-sex models than girls. The
evidence for girls imitating same-sex models is not strong.
★ Boys imitated more physically aggressive acts than girls. There was little
difference in verbal aggression between boys and girls.
★ bobo doll experiment
 How did the model help-
The behavioural model aided in understanding how anxieties are
linked to particular circumstances and how reinforcement
contributes to the emergence and maintenance of improper
behaviours.

What did the model not take into

consideration?
Data suggesting that genetic and biological factors contribute to
various illnesses is ignored Also, some people find the idea- that
human behaviour is just a collection of reactions to external stimuli-
challenging. They contend that people have the power to choose
their circumstances, their responses, and their free will.
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