2. What is the meaning?
Theprediction and control of human
behavior in which introspection and/or
independent thinking play no essential
part of its teaching methods
3. Key points of Behaviorism
People have no free will and their
environment determines their
behavior.
Came about the Industrial Revolution
and Modernism
4. Key Points Cont.
Primary concerned with observable
behavior
Behavior is a result of stimulus- response
All behavior is learnt from the environment
5. Ivan Pavlov
• Brought about
classical
conditioning by
experimenting with
dogs and their
salivation.
• Pavlov’s
experiment showed
that he could make
a dog salivate by
just ringing a bell.
6.
7. B.F. Skinner
• The father of operant
conditioning.
• Modified the tenets of
behaviorism to fit his own
discoveries. Bring up what
he called “operant
conditioning”- meaning that
an action taken often has
consequences that occur
naturally in the environment.
8. B.F. Skinner
• People using
Skinner’s
techniques have
taught animals to
perform any
number of
unnatural actions.
Like keyboard cat:
9. Behaviorism in the Classroom
Behaviorism shows the students which
behavior is desirable and discourages
that which is not.
For instance a teacher would give a
treat/reward to a student who behaves
properly, and punish a student who
misbehaves.
As time would go on the student would
then learn that if they behaved properly,
then they would gain a treat/reward
10. Our Thoughts
We believe that this is a good way to get
the students to behave in the way that
we see fit.
11. Video From:
twelvis, , dir. Cat Plays Piano. 2007. Film. 28
Nov 2012.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clfAq
1xSevc>.
