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

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

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/