2. LEARNING
GOALS:
Review the key concepts of behaviorism,
including its implication in recent educational
changes/ paradigms shifts;
Locate the key concepts of behaviorism in the
actual practice of the profession
Engage in insightful sharing of understanding of
the key concepts of social cognitive theory
backed up by personal experiences
Apply understanding of the key concepts of
behaviorism through a short critique paper.
3. OUTLINE
• Priming (Mind
Game)
• Activity (K-W-L)
• Behaviorism
• Connection
Theory
• Language and
Learning
• Thorndike’s
Contribution
• Skinner’s three-
term
Contingency
model of
operant
conditioning
• Key educational
application of
operant
principles in a
flexible learning
environment
11. • Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
(September 14, 1849 -
February 27, 1936) was
a Nobel Prize-winning
physiologist best known for
his classical conditioning
experiments with dogs.
• In his research, he
discovered the conditioned
reflex, which shaped the
field of behaviorism in
psychology
12. • B.F. Skinner, in
full Burrhus Frederic
Skinner, (born March 20,
1904,
Susquehanna, Pennsylvani
a, U.S.—died August 18,
1990, Cambridge,
Massachusetts), American
psychologist and an
influential exponent of beh
aviorism, which
views human behavior in
terms of responses to
environmental stimuli and
favors the controlled,
scientific study of
responses as the most
direct means of
elucidating human nature.
13. • John B. Watson was a
pioneering psychologist
who played an important
role in
developing behaviorism.
He is remembered for his
research on
the conditioning process.
• Watson is also known for
the Little Albert
experiment, in which he
demonstrated that a
child could be
conditioned to fear a
previously neutral
stimulus. His research
further revealed that this
fear could be generalized
to other similar objects.
14. Behaviorism
• Behaviorist theorists believe that behavior is shaped deliberately
by forces in the environment and that the type of person and
actions desired can be the product of design. Thus, by carefully
shaping desirable behavior, morality and information is learned
(Baulo & Nabua, 2019).
• Learners will acquire and remember responses that lead to
satisfying after effect. Thus, repetition of a meaningful connection
results in learning (Baulo & Nabua, 2019).
15. Behaviorism
• Behaviorism is linked with empiricism which stresses scientific
information and observation, rather than subjective or
metaphysical realities (Baulo & Nabua, 2019).
• The primary aims of behaviorist techniques are to change the
behavior and point it in more desirable directions (Baulo & Nabua,
2019).
16. Behaviorism
• Learning is demonstrated by the behavior of the learner in their
actions or reactions to further stimulus (Woollard, 2010).
• Behaviorism remains an important focus of research, theory of
learning, the underpinning of pedagogy, and the basis of
classroom strategies (Woollard, 2010).
17. Behaviorism
• Is a theory of animal and human learning that focuses upon the
behavior of the learner and the change in behavior that occurs
when learning takes place.
• Learning can be defined as the acquisition of a new behavior or
the modification of behavior as a result of teaching, training, or
tutoring.
