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Behaviorists view **learning as a visible change in ones behavior**. Behaviorism assumes that the learner starts off as a clear state and simply responds to environmental stimuli. Those responses **can be shaped through positive and negative reinforcement** increasing or decreasing the probability of repeating the same behavior. | Behaviorists view **learning as a visible change in ones behavior**. Behaviorism assumes that the learner starts off as a clear state and simply responds to environmental stimuli. Those responses **can be shaped through positive and negative reinforcement** increasing or decreasing the probability of repeating the same behavior. | ||
- | Influences | + | Among the below listed learning theories within behaviorist framework, connectionism presents an introduction to behaviorist learning and setting its frames, classical and operand conditioning present true behaviorist learning perspectives, and sign learning form a bridge from behaviorism to cognitivism which has replaced it in the second half of 20th century. |
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* [[learning_theories:Connectionism]] ([[http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/thorndike.htm|Edward Thorndike]]) | * [[learning_theories:Connectionism]] ([[http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/thorndike.htm|Edward Thorndike]]) | ||
- | * [[learning_theories:Clasicall conditioning]] ([[http://www.ivanpavlov.com/|Ivan Pavlov]]) | + | * [[learning_theories:Clasicall Conditioning]] ([[http://www.ivanpavlov.com/|Ivan Pavlov]]) |
- | * [[learning_theories:Operant conditioning]] ([[http://www.bfskinner.org/BFSkinner/AboutSkinner.html|Burrhus Skinner]]) | + | * [[learning_theories:Operant Conditioning]] ([[http://www.bfskinner.org/BFSkinner/AboutSkinner.html|Burrhus Skinner]]) |
+ | * [[learning_theories:Sign Learning]] ([[http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/tolman.htm|Edward Tolman]]) | ||
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- | ===== Other important contributors: ===== | ||
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- | * [[http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/watson.htm|John Watson]], [[http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/thorndike.htm|Edward Thorndike]], [[http://faculty.frostburg.edu/mbradley/psyography/edwardtolman.html|Edward Tolman]] | ||
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===== Bibliography ===== | ===== Bibliography ===== | ||
- | [[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/behaviorism/|Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy: Behaviorism]] | + | [[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/behaviorism/|Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy: Behaviorism.]] |
[[http://psychology.about.com/od/behavioralpsychology/a/classcond.htm|Classical Conditioning - Introduction to Classical Conditioning.]] | [[http://psychology.about.com/od/behavioralpsychology/a/classcond.htm|Classical Conditioning - Introduction to Classical Conditioning.]] |