Background information on the theory ‘Behaviorism’ It was invented by John Broadus Watson who was born on January 9, 1878 who died on September 25, 1958 (aged 80). He was residing in New York City, New York. His Nationality is American. Mr. J. Broadus was in the field of Psychology. He has Doctoral advisor; J. R. Angell and Other academic advisors was John Dewey, H. H. Donaldson and Jacques Loeb. J Broadus is known for Founding Behaviorism. This kind of theory was Influenced Ivan Pavlov and Leonard Bloomfield. The roots of BEHAVOIRISM http://study.com/academy/lesson/john-watson-and-behaviorism-theory-lesson-quiz.html Behaviorism “Behaviorism is a learning theory that only focuses on objectively observable behaviors and discounts …show more content…
Mr. B.F Skinner’s brought Operant Conditioning into existence. The Operant Conditioning is command feedback with recompense/ penalizing system based on a behavior. The learner requires to strengthen to maintain interests. By so doing the learner would be reinforcing the Behaviorism the favorable outcomes. This kind of theory is mostly passive meaning the learners are being instructed to act without bringing up a reaction. The behaviorist theory believes that “infants learn oral language from other human role models through a process involving imitation, rewards, and practice. Human role models in an infant’s environment provide the stimuli and rewards,” (Cooter & Reutzel, 2004). This theory is simply easy to comprehend because it only depend on the visible behavior and define few universal principles. But there are criticism on this theory • The theory is not for all the type of learning since it does not focuses on the mental. • BEHAVIORISM IS NOT FOR ALL LEARNERS NOR TEACHERS. • Behaviorism do not elaborate since there are no reinforcement …show more content…
If a grade drops below a C, the athlete will not be allowed to compete until he or she improves the grade. The negative reinforcement of not being allowed to compete often motives a student to quickly do what is needed to improve his or her grade. These examples of positive and negative reinforcement are also examples of behaviorism in action.”- http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-behaviorism.html#AsQGoIwQW5sGBsRC.99 video link - https://youtu.be/KYDYzR-ZWRQ COGNTIVE LEARNING THEORY Cognitive learning theory refers to how knowledge is begotten, arranged, kept and regained by our brain. it also studies the behavior of people towards the environment and how they think in terms of using knowledge. As it is not a must for learners to learn. the behavior focus on showing the learners to know how to monitor , have self planning and revising techniques. We , as learners must build on top of what we already know. If you want to be excel in using this theory, you will need to be :- you need to have a certain information so you can add on top of it. your information has to be in order according to its difficulties, you can maintain it. when you are faced with a task giving you hard time, break it into smaller, easy