2: Behavior of children (Slavin, 2018, Ch. 5)
Description : Understanding the ways that students learn and adopt behaviors will help teachers make choices about how they manage their classrooms that can lead to more successful learning for all students. Chapter 5 of Educational Psychology: Theory and Practice (12th edition) outlines social and behavioral learning theories and how they operate in the classroom (Slavin, 2018). Learning takes place in a variety of ways, but it is related to the connection between a stimulus and a response. Ivan Pavlov famously studied what takes place when a conditioned stimulus causes an unconditioned response and how that process can be manipulated, or what is now called “classical conditioning” (Slavin, 2018). B. F. Skinner continued this work by exploring “the use of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to change behavior”, referred to as “operant conditioning” (Slavin, 2018, p.99). Albert Bandura explored what children learn through social experiences and modeling and how it changes beha...