My son Ross loves animals. It's his birthday in a few weeks time, he wants a terrapin, this doesn't sound much but he has lots of pets. All of them live in his bedroom except his rabbits. He feels his animals are the most important thing in the world to him. He can't understand why everyone doesn't have pets.

A) Ross's desire to have a lot of pets can be explained through the behavioural approach. This is because he could have learned to like animals from a very early age, for example if he stroked a dog when he was young and the dog then rolled over or barked then that positive reinforcement would encourage Ross to do it again. This is operant conditioning where the behaviour is reinforced and encouraged to be repeated. Similarly Ross could desire to have lots of pets because of classical conditioning; this is where two events that repeatedly occur close together in time become fused in a persons mind and before long the person responds in the same way to both events. For......

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