EDUC 40 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Positive Feedback, Functional Analysis, Corporal Punishment
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Behaviorism - focuses on how people"s immediate environments bring about changes in their behavior. Teachers use behaviorist ideas to help students acquire more complex, productive, or prosocial than ones they first exhibit. Human mind was a black box - could not be opened for inspection. Instead focused on things that can be observed and objectively measured: stimuli and response. People"s behaviors are the result of their experiences with stimuli in their immediate environments. People are born with a "blank slate" and conditioned into the person they become. Learning involves forming associations among stimuli and responses. Learning is most likely to take place when stimuli and responses occur close together in time. Contiguity - when two stimuli are presented around or at the same time. One of your instructors (professor x) scowls at you as she hands back an exam she has just corrected. You discover that you"ve gotten a d on the exam, and your entire body tenses up.
