what is the difference between radical behaviorism and cognitive psychology?
I keep reading about them but I just cant understand it. Can someone please put it in simpler words?
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Applehunter said,
Wrote on August 28, 2010 @ 9:34 pm
radical behaviorism smells like psychiatry.
p.s; psychiatry is when the government gets involved with telling you how they want you to behave (think clockwerk orange as an extreme example).
Classical Psychology is far less obtrusive than that.
Guide said,
Wrote on August 28, 2010 @ 10:02 pm
Well the simplest way to put it is that cognitive psychology is basically focused on how we think and process information. Behavioral psychology is focused on what we do when we are presented with a certain stimuli.
Hope this helps :)
jessiessica said,
Wrote on August 28, 2010 @ 10:17 pm
Behaviourism focuses on observable behaviours, and how to change them. While I’m sure you’re heard of the classical conditioning that was associated with behaviourism, radical behaviourism took it to the extreme. Radical behaviourists claimed that there is no such thing as the mind, only behaviours. So while a person might say “I like listening to music”, the radical behaviourist would say “you frequently engage in the behaviour of exposing yourself to music”. Surprisingly, radical behaviourism was the dominant theory of psychology for a few decades early last century.
Now radical beaviourism is oversimplified and basically silly for obvious reasons, so along came the theory of cognitive psychology to dispute it. Cognitive psychologists argue that our thoughts do matter, and cognition should be the focus, rather than our behaviours as it is our thoughts that motivate us.
Neither of these theories are sufficient to completely explain human behaviour, so contemporary psychologists draw from both theories, as well as others, in order to get a more holistic understanding of human behaviour and cognition.
Hope this helps.
P.S. Applehunter appears to have no idea what they are talking about.