- The Behavioral Approach. Human conduct is found out; along these lines all conduct can be unlearned and new practices learned in its place
- Behaviorism is concerned principally with the perceptible and quantifiable parts of human conduct.
- Conduct scholars characterize learning as just the securing of new conduct in light of natural conditions.
Skinner Box illustration operant conditioning
The behavioral approach is most normally utilized with kids or in circumstances where the Authority figure ‘needs’, control the conduct of a customer e.g. in a jail or private home. It utilizes constructive and contrary support to shape a man’s conduct. Negative support is frequently mistaken for discipline. Token economy, star diagrams, time out, the ‘shrewd stride’ are all parts of this approach. It requires the ABC approach – Antecedent – what happens quickly before the Behavior, and after that what are the Consequences that fortify the conduct.
The advantage and Disadvantage of Behavioral approch are
Advantage
- It is anything but difficult to incorporate
- It is easy to get it
- The outcomes are normally snappy
- It utilizes little strides to shape the conduct
- It doesn’t require an expert to execute it – anybody can utilize the approach
- It depends on the rule that fortified (remunerated) conduct will be rehashed
- The outcomes can be measured and exhibit advance
- It is reasonable for any age and capacity
Disadvantage
- Not always easy to get people to change their mind
- The client may rebel against being told what to do
- Older people may resent being ‘treated like a child’
- It doesn’t consider the client’s thoughts or feelings
- It may be seen as dogmatic and a punishment
- Punishment is often used more frequently than rewards
- Could be seen as de-humanizing – reducing our behavior to responses to a stimuli
- Suggests that we are only pleasure-seeking animals