This document defines behaviorism as a theory that measures observable behaviors and responses to stimuli. It discusses how behaviorists believe learning occurs through positive and negative reinforcement in response to external stimuli, without internal cognitive processing. It profiles the influential behaviorists Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, and Albert Bandura, and their classic conditioning experiments with animals. The document also considers how teachers can apply behaviorist principles in the classroom using rewards and technology, and how students learn under this framework through conditioning of behaviors.

1. By: Allie Foster

2. Behaviorism Definition
 Behaviorism can be defined as a developmental theory
that measures observable behaviors produced by a
learner’s response to stimuli.
 Responses to stimuli can be reinforced with positive or
negative feedback to condition desired behaviors

3. To a behaviorist…
 Human learning is objective
 Experimental part of science
 There is no internal cognitive processing of information
 Every thing even animal and humans learn by positive and
negative rewards

5. Ivan Pavlov
 Ivan became famous for his behavioral experiments with dogs, and won the
Nobel Prize in physiology
 He used conditioning (positive and negative rewards) to salivate when he rang
a bell. When he gave them food ( the stimulus) they began to salivate. He than
rang a bell after. The dogs associated the bell with food.
 This process was referred to as Classical conditioning- refers to the natural
reflex that occurs in response to stimulus

6. B.F. Skinner
 Skinner did experiments with pigeons and rewarded them when he saw them
behaving in a good way
 Skinner eventually was able to teach the pigeons how to dance using this
 This type of conditioning is called operant conditioning- which describes
learning that has been controlled and results in shaping behavior through
positive reinforcement of stimulus

7. Albert Bandura
 Bandura invented the idea of social cognitive theory-focuses on those
motivational factors and self-regulatory mechanisms that contribute to a
person’s behavior
 Bandura believes that people acquire behavior through the observation of
others and then using those observations to imitate them. This can be referred
to as observational modeling.

8. What the teacher does under
this theory (with and without technology)?
 The teacher can use this type of learning theory do contain behavior in a classroom
by positive and negative rewards. This can contain a classroom well.
 A teacher can use technology as a positive reward for their students.
 Without technology, a teacher can use other things for rewards. In addition, the
teacher can use the technology as a negative by not allowing the students to use
whatever technology in class. They will miss out.

9. What the students do under the behaviorist
theory?
 I believe that the students do well with the behaviorist
theories. They understand if they do good things they
will receive positive benefits. If they do bad things they
will seek negative rewards.
 Technology can be a positive reward for students

10. What do I believe?
 I think I will use the behaviorist learning theory in my
classroom. If my future students act well they receive
positive benefits. This will want them to mimic
positive behavior.

11. Resources : 1. http://www.northlandprep.org/proctor/APP-
Ch13.htm.
2.
https://www.msu.edu/~purcelll/behaviorism%20theory.ht
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