Teodoro Jr.

Soreño
BSED-SCIENCE 2A
EDUC 5
A Detailed Lesson Plan in Educ 5
May 22, 2022
I. OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson students should be able to:
1. Understand the concept of behaviorism theory by Pavlov, Thorndike, Watson, and
Skinner.
2. Able to determine which theory of behaviorism have similarities.
3. Students to understand the importance of behaviorism theory (Pavlov, Thorndike,
Watson, and Skinner) for teachers and in the classroom.

II. SUBJJECT MATTER

Lesson: Theories of Behaviorism: Pavlov, Thorndike, Watson, and Skinner
a. Materials: Illustration of Examples
b. Reference: EDUC 5 Module – Facilitating Learner – Centered Teaching
c. Values Integration: Cooperation and Respect
d. Teaching Strategy: Direct Teaching
e. Content Standard: The students demonstrates an understanding of definition, example,
application, and to which are similar in the four (4) theories of behaviorism.
III. PROCEDURE
Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

Before we start everybody kindly please stand for our  Sir

prayer!

Who will lead the prayer now?

Yes Vincent?  Zabate sir will lead the prayer.
Okay Ms. Zabate kindly lead the prayer.  Dear God, thank you for everything. Today
we humbly ask your guidance so we can have
well understanding to the lesson we are going
to tackle today. This is all we ask in the
mighty name of Jesus Amen.
Good morning Class!  Good morning sir!
Before you take your seats. Please arrange your
chairs properly. Okay, thank you may now take your
seat.
  Present, sir!
Now, say here if your name is called.
Fredieliza
Dina
Edjane

Thank you, only Aiza is absent today?  Yes sir!

Again, I am reminding all of you to always follow

our rules during class so we can have a smooth
discussion and so everybody can understood the
lesson. Do I have to tell you again our rules?  No sir!

Good at least we are all clear to that.

Now, before we proceed to our lesson today. Let us

first do a recap.

So, anyone?  Sir

Yes Dina?  Our previous discussion is about learners with

exceptionalities.

Very good.
Thank you Dina!

Excellent! You should have remember that one

because we end up in a well discussion in that lesson.

Do you have any questions or clarifications regarding

on our previous lesson?

Silent means a yes

I’m happy that everyone understood our previous
lesson.

B. Motivation
Okay class, before we go through with our lesson.
Let us have first an activity. It’s a role play.

Now, what I want you to do is to form a two group

only.
Using the situation/example below the group should
present or do it through a role play:
Group 1: Dogs, who salivated in response to a bell
tone. It showed that when a bell was sounded each
time the dog was fed, the dog learned to associate the
sound with the presentation of the food.

Group 2: A cat learning to escape from a “puzzle

box” by pressing a lever inside the box. After much
trial and error behavior, the cat learns to associate
pressing the lever (S) with opening the door (R).

Any question?  No sir

Okay go to your group now.

You have 20 minutes to prepare.  Sir

Yes Vincent?  How about the members who don’t have the
role sir?

Okay thank you for asking Vincent!

So, this what will happen, Those members who do
not have the role are assigned to give a brief
explanation to their role play, but choose only 1
member to share it in front.

Understood?  Yes sir!

Okay, time is up!

Group 1 start

Representative of group 1 proceed now

 Our role play shows that the dog is trained
that every time he hear the ring of bell he will
come over expecting for his food

Very good, thank you group 1

Let’s give them a clap.

Group 2 start

Representative of group 2 proceed now  Our role play shows that through observation
the cat has escaped the puzzle box after many
 trials of pressing the lever inside the box.
Very good, thank you group 2
Let’s give them a clap

So, what do you think will be our lesson today?  Sir

 I think this about how learnings or behavior is

Yes Rhea? acquired.

Very good Rhea

Now, the concept to that examples you had perform

are our key to easily understand their theories of
behaviorism.

Unlocking of Difficulties

Classical conditioning: Classical conditioning is a

behavioral procedure in which a biologically potent
stimulus is paired with a previously neutral stimulus.
Stimulus: A stimulus is anything that can trigger a
physical or behavioral change.
Connectionism: Thorndike's view of learning
suggests that it consists of associations (or
connections) between stimuli and responses.
Operant conditioning: Operant conditioning is a
theory of behaviorism that focuses on changes in an
individual's observable behaviors.

C. Lesson proper
Okay, class are you ready to listen?  Yes sir!

Good!

Pavlov’s theory of classical conditioning is a type of

unconscious or automatic learning. This focuses the
process of learning by which new behaviors are
acquired via repeated pairings with unconditional
stimuli and responses. To better understand its
concept let us try to figure out Pavlov’s dog
experiment. He used to pair the two stimulus (bell &
meat) to acquire conditioned response from the dog.
These can be done by ringing the bell and do feed
them. Do it every time you feed them because later
on this will trigger their behavior that once the bell
ring your dog will expect for food because that is
what they are used to and that is what we called
conditioned response. A response that is given
because of it was learned. For the unconditioned  Sir
response it occurs naturally in reaction to the
 Can you give more example to that sir?
unconditioned stimulus.

Yes Jane?

Yes of course!

For example, considering that our unconditioned

stimulus is the fresh fish that you bought in the
market. And as you went home you noticed that your
dogs and cats are following behind you and saw them
salivating. And that response they showed to you is  Sir
natural and direct meaning this is not from what they
learned. They are doing it because that is what their
 So meaning sir conditioned response is
nature is.
learned and unconditioned response is not or
occurs natural?
Yes Michael?

Absolutely Michael!

Thorndike’s connectionism theory says that learning

is a product between stimulus and response. The
stimulus that is meant here is the thing that causes
reaction while the response is the reaction to that  Sir
stimulus. The key feature of connectionism is that it
can explain learning by observations rather than
suggested explanations of unobservable internal  Sir can you give us example to that sir?
states.

Yes Yassi?

 Yes of course

For example, you have bought a new pig and it

happened that this pig is used to live just in the
backyard. Now, you decided to use pig drinking
faucet instead. You have noticed that this pig is
ignorant to this faucet and he didn’t even know on
how to use it, but after all the trials he began to learn
on how to drink using this faucet. The main idea to
this is that the learning acquired from observation  Yes sir!
between the stimulus and to its response.

Understood?

Next

Watson’s behaviorism theory was influenced by

Pavlov classical conditioning theory. Watson’s
theory was more concerned with effects of stimuli.
He derived much of his thinking from Pavlov’s  Sir
animal studies. This is also referred to as learning
through stimulus substitution, a reference to the
substitution of one stimulus for another.  In what way does Watson’s theory and Pavlov
similar to each other is there example to that
sir?
Yes Joemar?

Okay….

For example, the ringing of a bell eventually

produced the same response as food for Pavlov’s dog.

Skinner’s operant conditioning theory suggest that

behavior that is followed by pleasant consequences is
likely to be repeated, and behavior followed by
unpleasant consequences is less likely to be repeated.  Sir
Operant conditioning is a type of associative learning
process through which the strength of a behavior is
modified by reinforcement or punishment. Skinner’s
work was based on Thorndike’s theory the idea was  Sir is observation or experience is what makes
that learning is acquired from experiences. Skinner’s and Thorndike’s theory similar?
Yes Krezel?

Yes Krezel exactly.  None so far sir!

Okay, class did you understand our lesson today?
Any questions, clarifications, or violent reactions?

Good!
 Sir
D. Generalization
Now who can summarize our discussion?
 Pavlov’s theory of classical conditioning is a
Yes Jassel? type of unconscious or automatic learning.
This focuses the process of learning by which
new behaviors are acquired via repeated
pairings with unconditional stimuli and
responses.
 Thorndike’s connectionism theory says that
learning is a product between stimulus and
response. The stimulus that is meant here is
the thing that causes reaction while the
response is the reaction to that stimulus.
 Watson’s behaviorism theory was influenced
by Pavlov classical conditioning theory.
Watson’s theory was more concerned with
effects of stimuli.
 Skinner’s operant conditioning theory suggest
that behavior that is followed by pleasant
consequences is likely to be repeated, and
behavior followed by unpleasant
consequences is less likely to be repeated.

Very good Jassel!

IV. Evaluation
Part I: Essay Writing
Answer the question concisely.
1. What have you learned about Pavlov’s,
Thorndike’s, Watson’s, and Skinner’s theory
of behaviorism?

2. Using a Venn diagram differentiate the 4

Theories of Behaviorism.

3. As a future teacher how does these theories

of behaviorism (Pavlov, Thorndike, Watsons,
and Skinner) help you in the future and what
do you think is the importance of these
theories in the classroom management?

V. Assignment
Research information about Neo
 Behaviorism: Tolman and Bandura. Write
it in a 1 whole sheet of paper to be pass on
Friday June 10.

Prepared by:
TEODORO JR. SOREŃO
BSED-SCIENCE 2A