Behaviorist approach to learning is useful when lots of repetition is needed to master a skill. Once it is mastered, it becomes second nature to the individual.
Few scenarios we can apply behaviorist approach is to teach discipline in kids. We give rewards and consequences as a form of eliminating or eliciting the behavior. The rational is that positive reinforcement leads to required positive behaviors.
Another scenario is learning a skill like swimming and cycling. Once needs to go through a series of repetition to learn it.
This theory has a bad reputation, one of it is that it keeps the learner in knowledge level and doesn't require them to go to higher order thinking skills. I think that some of the learning does require accumulating knowledge. Without the basic knowledge, there is no analysis possible. We can build the knowledge that is acquired by learning facts and memorization by using other theories.
Skinner;'s operant conditioning is one way to understand learning. Small kids learn many behaviors by this way.
Thondrike's connectionism states that learning happens through repeated trial and error learning, There is a stimulus and response which are strengthened or weakened by the consequences of the behavior. If you think about this, in adult, we do use these methods on a daily basis. The harsh driving is punished by the consequence of tickets, if in an accident by increasing the premium etc. So adults become careful drivers. They learn that behavior.
Few scenarios we can apply behaviorist approach is to teach discipline in kids. We give rewards and consequences as a form of eliminating or eliciting the behavior. The rational is that positive reinforcement leads to required positive behaviors.
Another scenario is learning a skill like swimming and cycling. Once needs to go through a series of repetition to learn it.
This theory has a bad reputation, one of it is that it keeps the learner in knowledge level and doesn't require them to go to higher order thinking skills. I think that some of the learning does require accumulating knowledge. Without the basic knowledge, there is no analysis possible. We can build the knowledge that is acquired by learning facts and memorization by using other theories.
Skinner;'s operant conditioning is one way to understand learning. Small kids learn many behaviors by this way.
Thondrike's connectionism states that learning happens through repeated trial and error learning, There is a stimulus and response which are strengthened or weakened by the consequences of the behavior. If you think about this, in adult, we do use these methods on a daily basis. The harsh driving is punished by the consequence of tickets, if in an accident by increasing the premium etc. So adults become careful drivers. They learn that behavior.
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