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Facilitating Learner-Centered Teaching

Module 7 – Behaviorism; Pavlov, Thorndike,


Watson, Skinner

Learning Outcomes
1. Explain the basic principles of behaviorism.
2. Make a simple plan applying the primary laws of learning.
3. Determine how to use rewards in the learning process more effectively.

Activity:

1. Think of a teacher that’s most unforgettable to you in elementary or high school.

2. Are there things that when you encounter at present (see, hear, touch, smell) make you “go
back to the past” and recall this teacher? What are these things?

3. What kinds of rewards and punishments did she/he apply in your class? For what student
behaviors were the rewards and punishment for?

Student Behavior Reward/Punishment


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Analysis:
1. What makes this teacher unforgettable for you?

2. Why do your answers in no. 1 make you recall this teacher? Describe the connection
these things have on your past teacher?

3. Were the rewards and punishments given effective? Please elaborate.

Abstraction:
Application:
Choose a place where you can observe adult-child interactions – such as in a market, in
church, at the playground, etc. Spend some minutes observing such adult-child interactions.
Focus your attention on the stimulus-response-consequence patterns you observe. Describe the
consequences you observe.

Answer the following questions:

1. What kinds of stimuli for children’s and adult’s behavior did you observe?

2. What kinds of behaviors on the part of children elicit reinforcement and punishment
consequences from the adult?

3. What kinds of behaviors of adults are reinforced or punished by the children?

4. What kinds of reinforcements and punishments seem to be the most “successful”?

Assessment Task:

1. Explain the basic principles of behaviorism.

2. Explain how to use rewards in the learning process effectively.

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