Behavioral Theory

Paper Summary:

The paper examines how, to integrate the behavioral theory in the classroom, the student and the teacher must first interact with one another by defining goals and objectives in the form of modifying behavior. The paper discusses how Abraham Maslow maintains that students learn by being 'empowered' and by having control over the learning process. The paper further examines how implementing this approach into the classroom setting would be a difficult endeavor in most instances.

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"The teacher and other students could then provide feedback about the specific performance, and would therefore reinforce the learning process, ie; move the information from the short-term memory to the long-term memory.
The humanistic theory takes a different approach than both the cognitive and the behavioral theories. The humanistic perspective is on the self, it is you, your perception of your experiences."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Cognitive Learning Theory - Web Quest, http://suedstudent.syr.edu/~ebarrett/ide621/cognitive.htm, accessed August 10, 2006
• Humanistic Perspective (1998), http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d46/psy/dev/Fall98/Theories/humanistic.html, accessed August 10, 2006

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