Chapter 9 Learning Log

What? Behavior’s come in many different ways. Classical conditioning was first described by Ivan Pavlov. Pavlov was a Russian physiologist who did research about salivation. Classical conditioning has many different stages to it that has an effect on how people act. It is done subconscious and naturally and is stimulus response. While operant conditioning is done conscious and contingent, this is the behavior reinforcement. Using reinforcement effectively can help to shape new behaviors that are wanted in the classroom. Addressing especially difficult classroom behaviors can be tricky, but if you do it in the right manner, you can accomplish what you are desiring. There are positive reinforcements and negative reinforcements that are used in the classroom. Positive adds to the students knowledge. Negative takes away from the knowledge and does nothing to help them.


So What? Knowing about the different type of reinforcers is helpful to know about as a future teacher. It is helpful because there is positive and negative reinforcement. Positive reinforcement will add information and other things to the students’ knowledge, while negative reinforcement takes away. Knowing about this will help me be a better teacher by knowing which reinforcers to use in the classroom to help keep order and to keep the students interested in learning.

Now What? I can apply reinforcements to the classroom in many different ways. I want to use positive reinforcements, because they will help the students the most. I am not all for the hot tickets to give to students. I think students should have fun learning, and don’t need bribery to learn. When that happens, the students don’t always remember what they learned. If the students have lost an interested in learning, then I will use the hot tickets to get them interested in learning again, and then take them away when they are no longer needed. Plus, hot tickets can more work for me as a teacher than I would like.