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Classroom Setting, Behaviorism, and the Contributions of Thorndike's Theories

sufficient evidence that direct instruction teaching would result in flexibility that is needed for students in order to target st...

Writing Class Expectations

them, and tell them what you told them) is essential to lessons on writing, and students must be reminded of how to integrate this...

Edward Lee Thorndike and Charles Darwin on Behavioral Science

In nine pages Thorndike's and Darwin's theories of behavioral science are discussed and contrasted and compared with contemporary ...

Major Theories of Behaviorist Learning

In a paper consisting of eight pages the behaviorist theories of Watson, Pavlov, and Thorndike are contrasted and compared in a di...

Skinner Theory

changed Pavlovs original classical conditioning proposal to operant conditioning. Skinners model includes how the environment infl...

Behaviorism/Teaching College Students

focused on operant rather classical conditioning (Mergel, 1998). Operant conditioning refers to "voluntary behaviors used in opera...

The Most Effective And Productive Approach To Understanding Human Behavior

When one hears the phrase "operant conditioning," Skinner is the first name that typically comes to mind, a man considered one of ...

Child Development Learning Theories

This paper reports four sets of theories, Piaget, behaviorism, nativism Vygotsky, and neo-Vygotsky. The major tenets of each are d...

Criminologist Sheldon Glueck and His Theory on Juvenile Delinquency:

in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...

The Sane Positivist A Biography of Edward L. Thorndike by Geraldine Joncich

the first name that typically comes to mind is Edward Lee Thorndike. Considered one of the leading educators in the field of psyc...

Learning Theories - Emphasis On Adult Learning Theories

transformative experience when the conditions are such that the learner is involved in reflection. This essay discusses the lear...

Literature Review for Use in a Project on Leadership in Kuwait

or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...

Adult Classroom and Experiential Learning

In eleven pages this paper discusses adult classroom learning in a background consideration of experiential learning with the cont...

Observations Of Preschool Classroom

The yard had exceptionally nice equipment. There was a large log-type structure with stairs, tunnels, bridges, slides, cubbyholes ...

College Classroom Management

the consequences for unacceptable behavior (Butts and Shrawder, 2003). The instructor needs to develop a set of clear rules for c...

Cultural Diversity Honoring in Changing Classrooms

backgrounds and honored each for its individuality and uniqueness. Now imagine how these students might feel if they went from t...

Behaviorism And Preschool

few options for educational achievement. In light of the fact that learning difficulties are inherent to autism, it stands to rea...

Ainsworth/Attachment Theory

following discussion of attachment theory, which particularly focuses on the contributions of Ainsworth, offers an overview of it...

PROS AND CONS OF ABILITY GROUPING

are some statements that can be taken as either pro- or con-ability grouping. The NEAs Code of Ethics of the Education Profession ...

Using Animals in a Therapeutic Setting

In six pages research literature that applies pet therapy to assisting children in the classroom to reduce verbal aggression is ex...

Content and Process Based Motivation Theories

relationship (Armstrong, 2009, p320). Process theories place an emphasis on the differences that are found in employees, and inste...

Classroom Behaviorism Charges' Rebuttal

In ten pages this paper represents a rebuttal to the charges against classroom uses of behavior change tools and behaviorism. Ele...

Education Philosophies

In fourteen pages this paper examines the philosophies of postmodernism, Marxism, existentialism, analytic, reconstructionism, beh...

Aggression and Albert Bandura's Social Learning Theory

Bandura said that if an individual is engaged in a behavior that will have consequences, motivation will not only be influenced by...

Behaviorism's Precepts from Ivan Pavlov to B.F. Skinner

This research paper consists of six pages and discusses the theoretical contributions of Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner to behaviori...

Hong Kong Family Therapy and Systems Theory

colleagues applied the same ideas to families and discovered that systems theory provided an ideal medium for gaining insight into...

Social Learning Theory of Albert Bandura

modeling process: 1. Attention: If an individual is going to learn anything, they must pay attention. At the same time, anything t...

Business Ethics Question; the Case of Flick

Friderichs. They may be argued that Flick violated Kants categorical imperative, and treating individual simply as a means to a pa...

Essays on Psychology

different islands of the Galapagos based on what their needs are in the use of their beaks. If they eat soft fruits or insects th...

Gestalt Psychology - A Confluence of Influence

to refer to the integrative process of cognition that he and his colleagues supported; tellingly, one of his students was Max Wert...