EDU 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Motivation, Observational Learning, Behaviorism
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Physiological responses are instinctual (food almost always makes a dog happy, it"s in their brain chemistry) Quietest table gets to go to recess first. Honor roll students have ice cream with principal. Or do we learn to value them for their associations? (e. g. praise, privilege, reward) Originally intended to remove competing reinforcements (adult attention, peer audience, distractions) Transferred to traditional punishment (only works for children who want to be in target environment they are being removed from) Can reinforce behavior if it is what child wants. If time out is also used as punishment in same environment, it can be confusing for children. Human motivations and meaning are more complicated. Social rewards like praise and achievement in one context can be overridden by social disincentives in another context. Relationships can be more meaningful than concrete rewards. Similar behaviors may have very different root causes and thus similar consequences will not have the same conditioning effect.
