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-====== Behaviorism ======
-===== About behaviorism =====
-Some of the oldest learning theories belong to the behaviorism as [[learning_paradigms|learning paradigm]] and date back from the beginning of the 20th century.
-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.
-The key component to this paradigm are observable behaviors and their measuring.
-===== Learning theories: =====
-  * [[Clasicall conditioning]] ([[http://www.ivanpavlov.com/|Ivan Pavlov]], 1849-1936)
-  * [[Operant conditioning]] ([[http://www.bfskinner.org/BFSkinner/AboutSkinner.html|Burrhus Skinner]], 1904-1990)
-===== Critic =====
-Behaviorism today mostly **lost its influence** and let **cognitivism take its place** as the dominant paradigm. Critics of behaviorist learning usually argue that behaviorism **does not explain all kinds o learning** since it ignores inner mind activities. Behaviorism also neglects the fact that behavior also depends on learners inner subjective representation of environment and learning history.
-===== Read more =====
-[[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/behaviorism/|Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy: Behaviorism]]

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