BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD THORNDIKE: Behavioral psychology
Edward Thorndike was a psychologist and pedagogue considered the predecessor of behavioral psychology. The main contributions were the learning/error learning and the effect law.
The main terms used in operating conditioning are:
- Stimulus: It is understood as the response to the reaction of an organism.
- Answer: refers to the behavior of an organism as a reaction to a stimulus.
- Conditioning: It is described as learning derived from the interaction between stimulus and response.
- Reinforcement: refers to the consequence of the behavior that makes it repeat again.
- Punishment: the opposite of reinforcement. It is the consequence of the behavior that makes it not repeated again.
Following Thorndike’s experiments, Skinner based on the effect law, introduced positive and negative reinforcement concepts. Skinner defended that behavior is the result of the interaction between stimulus and response.
According to Vicente, defines operating conditioning as a type of learning in which the subject performs a behavior in order to achieve something that interests him or avoiding something annoying. The behavior is aimed at a goal. This means that learning in a behavioral product dependent on the consequences of reinforcement, so, the interactions between stimulus and response are not learned, but that the answer is related to the consequences of consequences.
Given Rodrigo in class, I will use the extinction technique. Through extinction, the behavior that had previously been reinforced. In this way it is possible to reduce the possibility that the response will be given again. Extinction is contrary to positive reinforcement. Although this process is slow, in the long term it is effective, more than the punishment itself. It could be interpreted that extinction is one of the most difficult and complex practices to carry out.
Extinction is a way of teaching students effectively, teaching students to act in this way not to receive the attention of the teacher who deserves. Given this type of technique, for the teacher to carry it out, he has to acquire and foster in itself the self-confidence, self-control and hardness that the situation can cause, the reaction of the other students, the negative concept that will cause in Rodrigo ifContinue with your behavior.
Through the technique of extinction, in the case of Rodrigo, the attitude in the classroom will be to ignore him until he repairs that the attitude of hitting, disturbing, insulting does not have the desired consequence for him. What is tried to do with Rodrigo is to suppress the behavior that had already been reinforced. The attention is withdrawn above, and in this way the positive reinforcement that was being given, and with which, Rodrigo, saw his goal of attracting attention in the classroom is withdrawn. Through extinction, the teacher ignores the student’s behavior and thus manages to discourage him and produce the effect of not repeating said behavior.
Before the rest of the students, we would have to give them a positive reinforcement every time Rodrigo bothers and sticks them, and the students also managed to ignore him. Reinforce positively so that Rodrigo see that following the class in a cozy and quiet environment leads to an improvement in the general well -being of the class, and particularly in Rodrigo, which would get students to work in collaboration and help each other.
Social attention is one of the most notable positive reinforcers. The child usually see that the more disturbing, hitting, bothering, the more attention he receives from the teacher. With which, we must withdraw this reinforcement with ignorance from the child’s pranks. Surely Rodrigo will cease to do them.
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