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Describe and discuss the behaviourists approach in psychology The behaviourists base their study on examining individuals and their response to stimuli. They believed that we should only study what we can see; therefore they studied directly observable behaviour. The behaviourists did this because they believed that it was incorrect to try and measure what we cannot see, as this leads to inaccuracy. It is for these reasons that the behaviourists carry out their study on behaviour as it is directly observable and the learning process can be studied objectively. The behaviourists believe that we are all born as 'blank slate upon which experience writes'. The behaviourists believed in stimulus-response psychology (S-R), this is shown through the study of Pavlov. Pavlov was an early psychologist born in 1849 on September 14. Pavlov was a Russian physiologist whose research on the physiology led to the development of the first experimental model of learning,...

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