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-====== Behaviorism ====== 
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-===== About behaviorism ===== 
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-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. ​ 
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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. 
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-The key component to this paradigm are **observable behaviors and their measuring**. 
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-===== Learning theories: ===== 
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-  * [[Clasicall conditioning]] ([[http://​www.ivanpavlov.com/​|Ivan Pavlov]]) 
-  * [[Operant conditioning]] ([[http://​www.bfskinner.org/​BFSkinner/​AboutSkinner.html|Burrhus Skinner]]) 
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-===== Other important contributors:​ ===== 
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-  * John Watson, Edward Thorndike, Edward Tolman 
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-===== Critic ===== 
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-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. 
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-===== Bibliography ===== 
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-[[http://​plato.stanford.edu/​entries/​behaviorism/​|Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy: Behaviorism]] 
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-[[http://​psychology.about.com/​od/​behavioralpsychology/​a/​classcond.htm|Classical Conditioning - Introduction to Classical Conditioning.]] 
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-===== Read more ===== 
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-Turner, M. B. Philosophy and the science of behavior. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts,​ 1967. 
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-Skinner, B. F. About Behaviorism. Paw Prints, 2008. 
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-Baum, William M. Understanding behaviorism:​ science, behavior, and culture. Wiley-Blackwell,​ 1994. 
  
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