Psychology in the Classroom: Behaviorism
Psychology in the Classroom: Behaviorism
This video looks at the influence of behaviorism on teaching children. This is the first of a series of four short videos that looks at various psychological approaches to how children learn and how they affect the way children are taught.
Behaviorism was the dominant paradigm in psychology in the 1950’s and 1960’s. This was a time when in many countries educational systems were being rebuilt and reformed after the second world war, and behaviorist approaches became ingrained in the classroom, and their influence has stayed with us ever since. For many teachers, behaviorist ways of teaching languages to young learners became a kind of common sense.
Educational psychology has moved on since then. There have been at least two significant paradigm shifts since the 1950’s. First, with what is sometimes called the cognitive revolution, and then with a big shift towards constructivism.
But, a lot of classroom practice is still rooted in behaviorism.
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I would like to give a big thank Adam Kardos for doing the voiceover.
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00:00 Start
1:52 Behaviorism
3:22 What is behaviorism?
6:00 Intrinsic motivation
6:40 Extrinsic motivation
10:08 The blank slate
11:50 Mistakes
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A few follow-up links that may be helpful:
🟧 BEHAVIORISM
🔹Behaviorism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavio...
🔹Behaviorism
https://helpfulprofessor.com/behavior...
🔹The Impact of Behaviorism on Educational Psychology
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10....
🔹Why Behaviorism Doesn’t Work in the Classroom
http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/3...
🔹An Alternative View
Problems of Teaching the Behaviorist Perspective in the Cognitive Revolution https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
🟧 REWARDS
🔹Rewards Are Still Bad News (25 Years Later)
https://www.alfiekohn.org/article/rew...
🔹Why Dangling Rewards in Front of Students and Teachers is Counterproductive
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/a...
🔹Why We Should Avoid Rewards Even for Boring Tasks
https://www.alfiekohn.org/article/bor...
🔹Evidence for the Negative Impact of Reward on Self-regulated Learning
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...
🔹Six Reasons Rewards Don't Work
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/reward-...
🔹Extrinsic Rewards Exit Strategy
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/coac...
🔹A Meta-analytic Review of Experiments Examining the Effects of Extrinsic Rewards on Intrinsic Motivation
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1999-0...
🟧 MISTAKES
🔹It’s a Mistake Not to Use Mistakes as Part of the Learning Process
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/use-mis...
🔹Why Mistakes Matter in Creating A Path For Learning
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/48770/...
🔹What Do Kids Really Learn from Failure?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-d...
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🟧 David Paul links:
🔹 Language Teaching Professionals website
https://ltprofessionals.com
🔹 Facebook Group (Teaching English Around the World)
/ englishteacherssupport
🔹 Facebook page (Language Teaching Professionals )
/ languageteachingprofessionals
🔹 X
/ ltprofessionals
🔹 Linkedin Group (Teaching English Around the World)
/ 3813546
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🟧 Adam Kardos links:
🔹 AAS Press
https://aaspress.com/
🔹 Gamerize Dictionary
https://gamerize-dictionary.com/