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OPERANT CONDITIONING
• It combines the objective study of behavior while EDUCATIONS IMPLICATION OF SOCIAL LEARNING
also considering the purpose or goal of THEORY:
behavior. Tolman thought that learning
developed from knowledge about the • Students often learn a great deal simply by
environment and how the organism relates to its observing other people.
environment. • Describing the consequences of behavior can
effectively increase the appropriate behaviors
Purposive behaviorism has also been referred to a and decrease inappropriate ones.
sign learning theory and is often seen as the link • Modeling provides an alternative to shaping for
between behaviorism and Cognitive theory. teaching new behaviors
Those of the gestalt psychologist and Those of
John Watson, the behaviorist