Behaviorism
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Saturday, July 12, 2014
Friday, July 11, 2014
An insight to Behaviorism:
There are various theories discussed and formed to understand the
development of humans. One of the dominant theories among these theories is
Behaviorism. From the work of a psychologist named John B. Watson, in around
1870s, the behaviorism was originated (Coon, 2005). He was impressed by
the work of...
Operant Conditioning by B.F.Skinner:
Skinner was one of the influential psychologists in behaviorism. He made his
reputations by testing and taking a step above the experiments of Watson and
Pavlov, another two influential psychologists. He dismissed the notion that
organisms were passive and they do not have any control over their behavior. He
believed that...
Principles of Operant Conditioning:
There are mainly
two principles to Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement and Punishment.
Reinforcement can be further categorized as negative and positive
reinforcement. First of all, let us look at what actually is reinforcement.
According to (Yunus, Razali, & Jantan (
2011), reinforcement is defined as any event that increases...
Relationship between the different developmental stages and learning:
There are mainly three 3 stages of
developmental, Early childhood (0-6 years), Middle Childhood (7-12 years) and
Adolescence (13-21 years) (Yunus, Razali, & Jantan,
2011).
At this point, it is needed to highlight the fact that the behavioral
perspective denies the notion of people universally pass through a series...
