Behaviorism is a theory that focuses on predicting and controlling human behavior through conditioning and reinforcement rather than internal mental states. The major founders were Ivan Pavlov who discovered classical conditioning in dogs, B.F. Skinner who developed operant conditioning using positive and negative reinforcement, and Albert Bandura who studied observational learning and self-efficacy. In the classroom, behaviorism techniques can be used to shape student behavior through feedback, rewards, and modeling behaviors to influence learning.

1. Behaviorism
By: Danielle, Emily, Mackenzie, Whitney

2. Behaviorism
• As stated in the Teachers Discovering
Computers behaviorism, “is the prediction
and control of human behavior in which
introspections and independent thinking
play no essential part of its teaching
methods. “

3. Founder: Ivan Pavlov
• Became famous for his behavioral
experiments with dogs
• Won nobel Prize in Physiology in
1904
• Coined and created Classic
Conditioning

4. Founder: B.F. Skinner
• Created another form of conditioning that
is labeled Behavioral or Operant
conditioning.
• Used Positive and Negative reinforcement

5. Founder: Albert
Bandura
• Famous for his ideas on social learning,
later renamed Social CognitiveTheory
• Observational Modeling: watching and
then mimicking the observed behavior to
learn
• Self-efficacy: Personal observation about
one’s perceived ability to feel, think, and
motivate oneself to learn.

6. Classroom implications
• Teachers use the idea of positive and negative
reinforcement and classic conditioning to get
children to do the right thing in the classroom.
• A major thing for the teacher to give the students
feedback, positive feedback for good behavior and
somewhat of negative feedback for bad behavior.
• Group work can also be beneficial for these
children because of their easiness to external
stimuli.

7. Classroom implications...
• Children will need to know what stimuli works for
them because every child learns and works
differently. So them knowing what works best for
them will allow them to get the most of every
lesson.

8. Teaching in the
•
Classroom
We believe this theory works well in a classroom because it allows students
something to work for.
• Getting positive feedback and rewarded for good grades or behavior makes
them want to continue to do good in school.
• This theory provides lots of different methods so they can choice the way
they work best
• It is something we definitely have to keep in mind for our own teaching to
watch and alter the feedback we give our students to make sure it is
appropriate for them because it affects their learning process so much. We
have to make sure we are giving them the right type of feedback at exactly
the right time.

9. Work Cited
• http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1904/pavlov-bio.html
• http://www.google.com/imgres?q=b.f.+skinner&hl=en&client=safari&sa=X&tbo=d&rls=en
• http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/bandura.html
• Textbook: Teachers Discovering Computers: Integrating Technology in a
Connected World