BehaviorismFrom skinner’s thought

Fatima AliMasooma Alkhayat

Zahra IbrahimFateh Saleh

Skinner’s Background

Name at birth: Burrhus Frederic Skinner.

Born at 20th March 1904,at Pennsylvania .U.S.

one of the 20th century's most famous psychologists, known especially for his emphasis on behaviourism.

Skinner’s BackgroundBest known as: The behaviourist who invented the Skinner Box.doctorate in 1931.

Skinner authored several books like:The Behaviour of Organisms (1938) Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971). The novel Walden Two (1948).

died at 18th August 1990 at the age of 86 .

Why we chose the theory?

controlling students behaviors : (increase or decrease)manage classroom disciplineCreating an orderly and stable classroom environment

Skinner – BoxThe theory

A video about Skinner’s Box.

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The Principles.

How can we apply it in class?

• Setting rules and consequences

“Reinforcement schedules “

• Contingency Contracting

• Prompting “ cueing “

• Prompting “ cueing “

• Modeling

•Rehearsing appropriate behavior

punishment

Activity

1. Listening to the rules

2. Competition

3. Choice

4. Reward

Our Reflections

• Fatima Ali’s reflection

• Masooma Alkhayat’s reflection

• Zahra Ibrahim’s reflection

• Fateh Saleh’s reflection

The references

• Marlowe,Bruce A,Canestrai,Alan S,2006,Educational psychology in context,USA,Sage publications,Inc.

•Estes,William k,1970,Learning Theory and mental Development, New York and London,Academic press.

•Hayes, S.C., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Roche, B. (2001) Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition. Kluwer Academic: New York.

•Miller, Katherine (2005). Communication Theories: Perspectives, Processes, and Contexts (2nd ed.). New York, New York: McGraw-Hill.