Day 9: Taking a Closer Look at Behaviorism and Cognitivism (cont.)

Students will be able to

• review some important concepts from Behaviorism and Cognitivism.
• discuss the impact of these two theories in education.
• contrast these learning theories and their application in the classroom.

Behaviorism

Presentation

Video 1 (Watch an example of how behaviorism can be applied to classroom management)

Video 2 (Watch B. F. Skinner talking about his experiments and about behaviorism)

Cognitivism

Presentation

Video 1
Video 2

Homework:

Contrast these two learning theories using the following criteria:
a. role of the teacher
b. role of the learner
c. role of the environment



Sources
Videos are from:
Bluesofamedia. Retrieved from YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYDYzR-ZWRQ
SimplyPsychology. Retrieved from http://www.simplypsychology.org/operant-conditioning.html