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"WRITTEN REPORT"
GROUP 1: LEARNING THEORY
(MY TOPIC: BEHAVIORIST THEORIES)
What is Behaviorism?
- Behaviorism is a learning theory that only focuses on objectively observable
behaviors and discounts any independent activities of the mind.
1. OPERANT CONDITIONING
- A response is increased or decreased due to reinforcement punishment.
● POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT
- offering a rewarding factor to increase a response.
● NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT
- relinquishing a negative factor to increase a response.
● PUNISHMENT
- decreases the chances of a negative behavior happening again.
2. CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
- a neutral stimulus is associated with a natural response, the techniques of this
conditioning are used today in treatment of phobias and anxiety.
3. OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING
- learning occurs through observation and imitation of others.
1) ATTENTION
- paying attention to the model
- condition for learning
2) RETENTION
- remembering what the model did
- condition for imitating
3) REPRODUCTION
- people must have the capacity for imitating the behavior
- must have skills to imitate
4) MOTIVATION
- people must be motivated to imitate behavior
- importance of model or reward
● John B. Watson
- known as the "Father of Behaviorism"
● Albert Bandura
- his social learning theory points out the importance of observational learning.
● Burrhus Frederic Skinner
- the one who coined operant conditioning
● Ivan Pavlov
- discovered classical conditioning
REFERENCES:
Bandura, A., & Walters, R. H. (1963). Social learning and personality development. New
York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.