1. BEHAVIORISM
By Alicia K.

2. MENU
 WHAT?
 WHO?
 HOW?
 IN MY CLASSROOM

3. WHAT?
 Humans shaped entirely by environment
 Nerves send impulses to brain
 Reaction of physical stimuli
 Learning determined by stimuli
 Comfort of chair
 Temperature of room

4. What?
 Experience = important cause of learning
 Feedback promotes learning
 positive/negative reinforcement
 Alter environment = alter human’s:
 Thoughts
 Feelings
 Behavior

5. What?
 Familiar experiment: Pavlov’s Dog
 Pavlov used behaviorism/conditioning
 Dog received meat at bell’s ring
 Dog drooled when bell was rung
 Whether there was meat or not
 Dog’s stimuli impulse drool

6. Who?
 B. F. Skinner
 Harvard professor
 Leading advocate of behaviorism
 Founded school to study behaviorism
 Verbal Behavior
 Book of experiments and work

7. B. F. Skinner
 Developed Radical Behaviorism
 Science to understand behavior
 Popularized REINFORCEMENT
 Connect learning with reward
 Smile, good grades, privileges

8. How it works?
 Teacher would give instruction
 Student would practice
 Outcome Positive:
 Student succeeds
 Positive verbal feedback
 Receives good grade or reward

9. How it works?
 Outcome Negative:
 Student fails
 Negative punishment
 Receives negative verbal feedback
 Teacher’s discretion of punishment
 Teacher reassigns instruction
 Repeat outcome analysis

10. How it works?
 If there is change in behavior
 Learning is achieved
 Positive reinforcement
 Increase probability of behavior repeating
 Negative punishment
 Decrease likelihood of behavior repeating

11. My Classroom…
 Use behaviorism to motivate student success
 Students will work for rewards
 My rewards for positive behavior
 Candy
 Free time at end of class
 Free late pass (excuse of tardy)
 Homework pass

12. My Classroom…
 I would use this strategy
 Give student immediate feedback
 Break down task into small steps
 Repeat directions as much as possible
 Work from simple to complex tasks
 Give positive/negative reinforcement

13. My Classroom…
 Have prepared lesson plans
 Student will sit among all students
 Students are asked questions
 Correct answer, receive candy/reward
 Receive reinforcement depending on answer
 Encourages students awareness of lesson