Ch. 9 Questions to Consider

How would you define successful mastery of your lesson objectives from a behavioral view of learning?

 For elementary students it is important to learn new words. So I would use a lesson plan on teaching children a new set of vocabulary words each week. A behavioral view of learning is important for learning new vocabulary. Once we begin doing new vocabulary each week they will really start to get in a routine with learning the new words. Their conditioned response (289) would be present every time I put up on the screen a new set of words. They know that they need to write these words down because they will be having new vocabulary for the week. So every week when the new words go up on the board they know exactly what to do because they have been conditioned in it (288). 





Consider your CSEL intervention case study.  Are there tools from a behaviorist view for either encouraging productive behaviors or discouraging undesirable behaviors that you could apply to the case? What are they?

I have the Elementary case study. So for this I would need to talk with the group that is having issues. Specifically I would need to talk with Lisa. I think what would work best for her situation is to present a removal punishment (297). She would most likely be upset if I took 3 minutes off of her recess time. I would need to get across to her that if she does not cooperate in her group that I will take time off of her recess time. Another way to handle this situation could be to use presentation punishment (297). I could tell Lisa that if she can't work on the project in her group, then she will have to do the project alone. I am providing her with a choice. She can either work together with the others or she can do it alone. Hopefully in this situation working alone would act as a stimulus she would find unpleasant.