The Behaviourist Perspective. The basic proposal of the behaviourist perspective is that the positive and negative reinforcers, which we receive in our everyday lives, condition all human behaviour. According to behaviourists we are all born as ‘blank slates’ and everything we do has to be learned or ‘conditioned’. Behaviour can be conditioned in two ways, 1, Classical Conditioning and 2, Operant Conditioning. One example of a behaviour, which can be learned by conditioning, is phobias. The behavioural model proposes that all phobias are developed through
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