Another one of the seven approaches is the behavioral approach. This approach deals with the scientific study of observable behavioral responses and how the environment influences that. This approach focuses on the actual behaviors of a human or animal-not the feelings or thoughts.

Learning has to do with the behavioral approach. Behaviorism is the theory of learning by observation. The behavioral approach is used with understanding associative learning. This learning is just the connection between two stimuli. Another type of learning is operant learning is this type of learning is even better. This type deals with understanding that the consequence of a behavior influences the occurrence of that behavior. Everyone knows that reinforcement and punishment deal with ones’ behavior and how frequently they continue doing that behavior whether they are given a reward or not.

The behavioral approach influences society greatly because it is the actual behaviors that are visually brought out of humans.

Some strengths are that it is easily tested and that there are many theories to support this. Some limitations is that it ignores the understanding of biology and it is too “deterministic.”