Behaviourism

 

This theory is based on the observable changes in behaviour. Behaviourism focuses on a new behavioural pattern being repeated until it becomes automatic. The theory of behaviourism concentrates on the study of overt behaviours that can be observed and measured. It views the mind as a "black box" in the sense that response to stimulus can be observed quantitatively, totally ignoring the possibility of thought processes occurring in the mind. Some key players in the development of the behaviourist theory were Pavlov and Skinner. In essence, three basic assumptions are held to be true. First, learning is manifested by a change in behaviour. Secondly, the environment shapes behaviour and thirdly, the principles of contiguity (how close in time two events must be for a bond to be formed) and reinforcement (any means of increasing the likelihood that an event will be repeated) are central to explaining the learning process. For behaviourism, learning is the acquisition of new behaviour through conditioning.
The advantage of this approach is that it gives the learner an opportunity to acquire sufficient knowledge while spending little time trying to construct the knowledge. The disadvantage is that a child easily forgets what he has memorized immediately he stops practicing and this approach out rightly rejects any role of subjective experience in the learning process.
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