BEHAVIORISM

HOW DO THESE QUOTES RELATE TO BEHvIORISM?

• The legacy of behaviorism: do this and you'll get that
• The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount-B.F. Skinner

WHAT IS BEHAVIORISM?

BEHAVIORISM

• Human behavior can be based on external stimuli
• The best behaviorist environment, where student behavior is shaped by arranging specific conditions for learning.

CHARACTERISTICS

CHARACTERISTICS/BASIC PRINCIPLES

• Most behaviors are learned
• Most behaviors are stimulus specific
• Most behaviors can be taught, changed or modified
• Behavior change goals should be specific and clearly defined

CHARACTERISTICS/BASIC PRINCIPLES

• Behavior change programs should be individualized
• Behavior change programs should focus on here and now
• Behavior change programs focus on the child's environment

CURRICULUM

CURRICULUM

• Not focused on curriculum itself but on the environment variables in the class
• Each variable has an affect on the student

CURRICULUM CONT.

• When environmental variables are in place, the students will learn in any curriculum place in which they are put because they are ready to learn behaviorally
• Ex: discipline plan

INSTRUCTION

INSTRUCTION

• To receive appropriate behavior from students based the established learning environment instructional methods must be applied
• Methods can be observed and measured

EXAMPLES OF INSTRUCTION

• Behavior contracts
• Positive reinforcement
• Negative reinforment
• Punishment

TEACHERS ROLE

• Center of instruction so learning can take place
• Two main principles:
• 1) identify expected behavior so both appropriate and inappropriate behavior are clear
• 2) Create basic rules of conduct so behaviors translate

TECAHERS ROLE CONT.

• Monitor classroom events
• Timely and accurate responses to inappropriate behavior
• Iep's: instructional education plAn; one on one monitoring/feedback

STUDENTS ROLE

• Learn expected behaviors and follow them
• Every student can modify/change behavior
• Every student can Lear new behavior

KEY EDUCATORS

PAVLOV

• he trained a hungry dog to drool at the sound of a bell.
• If an external stimuli like a bell being ringing wouldcause the dogs to salivate.
• Training the dogs to respond to the bell ended in what Pavlov said to be a conditioned stimulus and the dogs salivation was called conditioned response
• https://youtu.be/hhqumfpxuzI

WATSON

• Argued that classical conditioning was able to explain all aspects of human psychology
• Individual differences in behavior due to different learning experiences