1. Behaviorism
Meghan Grimm

2. Key Points
• “Stimulus-Response”
• Classical Conditioning
• Positive and Negative Reinforcement
• Operant Conditioning
• All behavior explained without consideration
of mental states

3. Key People
• John B. Watson
• Ivan Pavlov
classical conditioning
• B.F. Skinner
operant conditioning
• E. L. Thorndike
connectionism

4. Teachers Approach
• Positive Reinforcement
Ex: Rewarding children for good behavior with stickers, extra
credit, computer game time etc.
• Negative Reinforcement
Ex: Punishing students for bad behavior. Sending them to the
principle, taking time away from their play time
• Classical Conditioning
Ex: At the end of a lunch period, teacher uses clapping to gain
attention of students. This not only gets the attention but
children are conditioned to become quiet.

5. Classical Conditioning

6. Students Approach
• Operant Conditioning
Students behavior is based off of the consequences they have
received previously. So- learning is “increased probability of a
behavior based on reinforcement”

7. Operant Conditioning
• Computer-based software
-provides positive reinforcement when a desired
behavior occurs
-provides negative reinforcement when student doesn’t
provide desired behavior
Click play button

8. Personal Thoughts on Theory
• Negative and Positive reinforcement are
inevitable
• Students enjoy being rewarded and fear being
punished for behavior
• Operant Conditioning is very useful to keep
students participating and keeping behavior
under control in the classroom

9. Credits
• Behaviorism Learning Theory
• Operant Conditioning
• Teachers Discovering Computers