Educational Psychology / Unit 4 EDP 0310 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Behaviorism
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The idea
Behaviorism treats learning as a change in observable behavior, and it is strong at linking an action to what precedes it and what follows it.
In practice
A student starts raising a hand after the teacher calls only on raised hands.
Where people slip
Its weakness is explaining thinking: behaviorism describes what students do, less how they reason.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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