Behaviorism- Reflection

• When I first began to learn about this theory I wasn’t sure if it truly made sense to me.
• I think a lot of my teachers when I was growing up taught using this theory. When we got into the reinforcement side of the theory it really stood out to me. I can remember especially in elementary school, a lot of my teachers using positive reinforcement like giving out stickers or candy for getting the right answer and it really increased the students responses.
• The class activities where we had to fill out the behaviorism booklet and describing the three different learning situations using the behavioral learning theory principles really helped me understand the theory better.
• The behaviorism learning theory has changed my idea on learning because it is based on of the changes in behavioral observations to know whether or not a person has actually learned something. I think that makes this theory a little more believable than other learning theories.