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    WHAT IS LEARNING FOR YOU?

    BEHAVIORIST PERSPECTIVE

    ALONA A. ENCINARES
    Discussant

    NOEL V. IBIS,Ph.D.
    Professor
    WHAT IS LEARNING?
     Learning is acquiring new, or modifying existing,
    knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and
    may involve synthesizing different types of
    information.
     The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals
    and some machines. Learning may be viewed as a
    process, rather than a collection of factual and
    procedural knowledge. It is based on experience.
    Learning produces changes in the organism and the
    changes produced are relatively permanent.
    BEHAVIORIST PERSPECTIVE
    Behaviorist perspectives in learning
    are different from most other
    perspectives because they view
    people as controlled by their
    environment and specifically that
    we are the result of what we have
    learned from our environment.
    JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704)
    ) who viewed the new born baby as
    a blank slate - tabula rasa - on
    whom the experience of life would
    write a specific story.
    IVAN PAVLOV
    Classical Conditioning
    -Stimulus-Response
    JOHN B. WATSON
     Early Classical Conditioning with Humans

    John b. Watson further extended


    Pavlov’s work and applied it to
    human beings.
    BEHAVIORISM
     underlying assumptions regarding methodology and
    behavioral analysis:
     * Psychology should be seen as a science.
    * Behaviorism is primarily concerned with observable
    behavior,
    * People have no free will
     * When born our mind is 'tabula rasa' (a blank slate).
    * There is little difference between the learning that
    takes place in humans and that in other animals. .
    * Behavior is the result of stimulus
     * All behavior is learnt from the environment.
    BURRHUS FREDERIC SKINNER
     Operant Conditioning

     -it means roughly changing of behavior


    by the use of reinforcement which is
    given after the desired response.
    Skinner identified three types of
    responses or operant that can follow
    behavior.
    Skinner identified three types of responses or operant
    that can follow behavior.

    Neutral operants: responses from


    the environment that neither
    increase nor decrease the
    probability of a behavior being
    repeated.
    • Reinforcers: Responses from the
    environment that increase the
    probability of a behavior being
    repeated. Reinforcers can be either
    positive or negative.
    Punishers: Response from the
    environment that decrease the
    likelihood of a behavior being
    repeated. Punishment weakens
    behavior.
    References:
     en.wikipedia.org/wiki
     John Locke’s Theory of Tabula Rasa/eHow.com
     McLeod, S. A. (2007). B.F. Skinner | Operant
    Conditioning.
     www.simplypsychology.org
    ›Perspective>Behaviorism
    THANK YOU!
    Activity:
     Identify one habit or behavior in yourself that you
    would like to change. Develop a simple structure of
    rewards and punishments which will assist you to
    operationally condition yourself to change this
    behavior. For example, if you would like to eliminate a
    habit of snacking between meals, you might decide to
    "punish" yourself with 10 pushups every time you
    snack between meals. You might "reward" yourself by
    giving yourself a dollar before each meal when
    snacking before the meal did not occur. You would
    then need to use your "snack money reward" toward
    some fun activity or item for yourself.

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