1. Created By: Briana Lowry, Emily
McPhail, Darlshawn Patterson,
and Carly Reese

2. • The teaching theory that we would use would be a
combination of Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, and Albert
Bandura because these were the main people who
influenced Behaviorism.

3. • 1849-1936
• He is famous for behavioral
experiments with dogs.
• Won the Nobel Peace prize in
psychology in 1904.
• Taught dogs to salivate when the door
bell rang.
• Pavlov came up with classic
conditioning. He would show food to
the dogs and make them salivate and
then ring a bell. Eventually, he got the
dogs to salivate whenever he rang the
bell and didn’t have any food.

4. • 1904-1990
• Operant Conditioning – learning that is
controlled and results in behavior
through reinforcement.
• Skinner worked with pigeons and
rewarded them when he saw a
behavior he liked. Eventually, a
stimulus response pattern occurred and
he was able to teach the pigeons to
dance.
• He believed that people shape their
behavior based on the rewards or
positive reinforcement.
• Forms of computer based instruction
and educational software are based on
Skinner’s operant conditioning.

5. • 1925-
• Social Learning = Social Cognitive
Theory
• Focused on those motivational factors
and self-regulatory mechanisms that
contribute to a person’s behavior,
rather than environmental
mechanisms, which separates us from
Skinner.
Self-efficacy – a personal a personal
• Believes people acquire behaviors first
observation about one’s perceived ability to
from observation of others and then by
feel, think, and motivate oneself to learn.
using those observations to imitate
Bandura began to analyze a person’s
what they have observed.
personality through interaction with
• Several studies with commercials environment, behavior, and the person’s
support this theory. psychological processes.
• Observational modeling – is watching Imagery – he started to consider a person’s
something and then mimicking the ability to retain info through images in the mind.
observed behavior. At this point he stopped being a strict
• Social learning has been applied behaviorist and began to join position of
extensively in the context of behavior cognitivists.
modification, which is used in training

6. • All behavior is motivated by external stimuli.
• Behaviorists are true believers in extrinsic motivations.
• There is no line between human and animal, because
both learn and respond to stimuli.

7. • Controlled learning that results in shaping behavior
through the reinforcement of stimulus-responsive
patterns.
• When a behavior is rewarded, it is repeated. When a
behavior is faced with negative consequences, it is not
repeated.
• Skinner experimented with pigeons and trained them to
dance, by rewarding them every time they turned on cue.
• Skinner also experimented on people, including his infant
daughter.
• Reinforcement is a powerful motivator.
• Skinner believes that language development is based on
operant conditioning.

8. • The natural reflex that occurs in response to a stimulus.
• Pavlov conducted stimulus response experiments with
dogs and he taught those dogs to salivate to the ringing
of a food bell, even when no food was present.
• He originally conducted his dog experiments to study
digestion. It was other behaviorists that studied his work
in terms of stimulus response.
• Behaviorists believe there were human applications in
these experiments.

9. • The motivational and self-regulating forces that dictate a
person’s behavior, instead of just environmental
influences.
• People learn through observation and imitation.
• It has been used in behavior modification.
• Bandura is known for conducting the Bobo Doll
experiment.

10. • What the teacher does under this • With the use of technology…
theory? Teachers implement technology in lessons
Teachers create an environment in which and assignments to increase the desired
the desired behavior is reinforced. effort and engagement of students.
Examples:
• Teachers may use short videos during
Examples:
lessons and give a quiz afterward.
• Teachers use flash cards to get student (Students are more likely to pay attention
to memorized desired material. to the video.)
• Teachers may give drills and practice • Teachers may give computer or web
test and repeat and get students to based quizzes or activities that provide
memorize desired material. instant feedback and explanations.
• Teachers provide feedback, may give • Teachers may assign electronic drill and
special privileges and good grades practice resources for homework of in
when desired behavior occurs. class so students can practice skills and
techniques necessary to achieve class
• Teacher may ignore undesirable objectives.
behavior.
• Teachers may use word processing
software, spreadsheets, and graphical
representations of data to promote more

11. • What do students do under this theory?
• React
-Under behaviorism, students simply react to their environments.
Much like Pavlov's dogs, students observe their environments,
and react. Sometimes students will provide their own input
before a reaction will occur, such as answering a question, or
attempting to imitate someone else. Either way, behaviorism is
based upon "action-reaction."
• Reinforcement
-Many software and hardware companies are designing products
to reinforce learning for younger students.
-Students will be positively reinforced for good behavior, for
example, a good grade on a test means a students gets to go in
the prize box. This will make the student that does bad on the
test want to get a good grade on the next one so they can go in
the prize box too.

12. • The Textbook:
• Shelly, Gary, Glenda Gunter, and Randolph Gunter. "Learning
Theories and Educational Research." Teachers
Discovering Computers: Integrating Technology in a
Connected World. 7th ed. Boston, 2012. 257-80. Print.
• Online:
• http://www.learning-theories.com/category/behaviorist-theories
• Seeing Behaviorism Everywhere, even New Educational
Technology Integration Resources by Rebecca Green.
Retrieved from:
http://rebeccagreen.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/seeing-
behaviorism-everywhere-even-new-educational-technology-
integration-resources/