Saturday, December 9, 2006

Behaviorism

It is the first and most important theory of learning a language. The theory mainly based on the mark of the Parlon and skinner. No theory of learning has received more attention than skinners operant conditioning theory. B.F. Skinner was a very intelligent psychologist of America. He believes that all most all human behaviour is the result of operant reinforcement. In operant conditioning the organism is free to do what it likes and when it likes. He believed that, reinforcement is a stimulus which follows a response and increases the probability. He gave beautiful example. If a person learns quickly that money can be used to obtain thing that are enjoyable or help to avoid other things that are enjoyable or help to avoid other things behaviour that results in getting money to avoid this type behaviour.

Skinner with his black training box and carefully controlled environment for reinforcement or impending the behaviour or pigeon and ret. They has been able to take a relatively simple theory and show its endless variations and applications to many forms of learning his writing has been easy to understand and his theories have seemed applicable to many situations for children and adults. Skinner investigated a version or a factor that distress people such as pain, loss of affection or friendship and has contributed significantly to aversions therapy. He gave a very good example to understood it. Where the problem is lesson smoking or drinking by employing chemicals that make smoking or drinking unpleasant.

Behaviour modification is now a utilised in many classrooms. But it is used in more often in various treatment in institutions. By the classroom behaviour, they also learn some good thing. The mortality of such procedures, as well as their language term effectiveness is a matter of discussion and debate. It is also one thing that by debate and discussion in classroom students learn a new thing. Skinners paradigm of operant conditioning has been the basis for the new concepts of technology of teaching or the educational technology. Skinners treatment of learning a language is confirmation of the current response. It provided a formula for language practice in the classroom and also in every place there language teach. His way of learning a language is so good that we get treatment for his formulas. He argued that if the lowly pigeon can be trained by skilful control of the environment, how much more could human brings learn. If we arranged the learning environment in a more deliberate manner, we can learn much more as, we are very good and intelligent human being .

In this very first theory we see that, how skinner experimented this theory on different animals. This simple but powerful theory said that learning is a mechanical process of habit formation and it proceeds by means of the frequent reinforcement of stimulus response sequences. By this theory we can make our teaching also very effect. This is the theory by which we learn a language in a different ways. Skinner a great psychologist describes this theory very good whatever the idea come into his mind about it is good.

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