Educational Psychology

Chapter 7 Learning Goals

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:

 

    1. Discuss the importance to teachers of understanding behavioral approaches to learning.
    2. Describe the basic idea of classical conditioning
    3. Explain how classical conditioning was discovered.
    4. Describe the process of classical conditioning
    5. Describe the basic idea of operant conditioning.
    6. Explain how operant conditioning was discovered.
    7. Describe the process of operant conditioning.
    8. Discuss changing students' behavior with behavioral modification.
    9. Describe the basic idea of social learning