Behaviorism is a theory that human behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning in response to environmental stimuli without appeal to internal mental states or other constructs. Key aspects of behaviorism include conditioning through reinforcement or punishment, learning through observation, and shaping behavior through positive and negative reinforcement. Behaviorism was explored through experiments by psychologists like Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, and Albert Bandura and influences approaches to education through conditioning students' behaviors in the classroom.

1. Behaviorism
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2. Important Points on Behaviorism
 Behaviorism is the prediction and control of human
behavior in which introspection and independent
thinking play no essential part of its teaching
methods.
 Behaviorism is a worldview that operates on a
principle of stimulus response.
 The learner starts with a clean slate and behavior is
shaped through positive and negative reinforcement.

3. Ivan Pavlov became
famous for his
experments involving
behaviorism. Pavlov
used conditioning to
teach a dog to salivate
when he rang a bell. The
stimulus was food and
the desired effect was
stimulus when Pavlov
rang the bell. From this
training the dog
eventually in time knew
that when the bell was
rung he would get food.
From this experiment
Classic Conditioning was
formed. From Pavlov’s Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)
experiments he won the
Noble Peace Prize in
Physiology in 1904.

4.  B.F Skinner did experiments with
B.F Skinner pigeons and rewarded them when
(1904-1990) they did the correct behavior.
Operant Conditioning
describes learning thar
Skinner believed that people
us controlled and reslts shape their behavior based on the
in shaping behaior
through the rewards or positive reinforcement
reinforcement of
stimulus-response
they receive. From his
patterns. experiments he decided the
reinforcement was the most
powerful motivator, if one does
something good and is rewarded
then they continue the behavior.

5. Famous for his idea of
socaial learning, which
Bandura renamed Social
Cognitive Theory. His
theory is different from
Skinner’s theory because
he focuses on
motivational factors and
self-refulatory
mechanisms that
influence a persons
behavior. Bandura also
believes that people gain
behaviors through
observation which made
him come up with the
idea of Observational
Modeling which is Albert Bandura (1925-current)
watching something and
then mimicking the
behavior observed.

6. Behaviorism In The Classroom
Teacher’s using Behaviorism Student’s using Behaviorism
 It is a teachers responsibility to provide  Students in elementary school use
the child in an environment where only behaviorism by watching their teachers
appropriate behavior is reinforced. actions throughout the day, also by the
 Behaviors that are observed should be actions they do. If they do something
behaviors that will be used later on in bad they are usually punished by
life and are positive and not negative. moving their card or getting a note
 Using technology when teaching a
home but if they are good they might
lesson plane such on a black board get a star sticker or some note saying
could help the student watch and learn how wonderful they are being.
since behaviorism is also believed to be  In high school behaviorism can be used
observational from watching t.v. such as relative
shows which are not true. At the same
time they watch these shows they
observe teachers lives and want to be
like certain ones.
 Another thing that contributes to kids
behaviors is social media it is used
every single day inside and outside of
school

7. In My Own Classroom
 Personally when it is time for me to have my own
classroom I feel as if Behaviorism is a huge impact.
Reason being that children grown from the world around
them and the actions and reactions they see so
observation is a huge deal, it helps mold ones behavior.
Another affect is the idea of training like like B.F. Skinner
did with the pigeons, when the student does something
good they are rewarded and when they do something bad
they are punished. From all the experiments and
observation I think that behaviorism is an important
thing to have in the classroom because each year they
will gain a better idea of what is excepted and what is not
and they would be molded into good behavior.

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