Activity 1: Behaviorism Learning Theory page
Key items to cover discuss characteristics of behaviorism, identify and describe Pavlov’s and Skinner’s works, and develop examples of Behaviorism in learning environments. What exactly is behaviourism? Significance of Pavlov Noteable for his work with dogs, stimulus response (classical conditioning) learning to associate a seemingly unrelated event with another (ringing of a bell with the arrival of food to eat) so that one event signaled a response / anticipation of the other - "Associated learning" . Significance of Skinner focus only on what is observable we're no different than the dogs ... responding to stimuli if we have a pleasant experience we learn to seek it out again.... if we have an unpleasant experience, we learn to avoid it. role of teacher .. to promote positive / desireable responses to a stimuli and praise to reinforce it typical activities / evidence of this? repetition, drilling, memorization, question-and-response, and ext...