the clinical environment remains a key area for learning, and practitioners continue to make a huge contribution to the education of students. varieties of theories of learning are available for trainers to use in medical education, it is very important to identify the principles of learning and understand how individual differences affect the learning process. it is interesting to think about ...

Feminist critiques of traditional psychological approaches have generated thorough feminist revisions most notably in psychoanalytic and developmental theory. Although behaviorism has attracted strong objections from feminist critics, claims of its antithetical positioning vis-a-vis feminist theory construction have practically remained unchallenged. A preliminary step in formulating 'grounds f...

The following is a synthesis of a number of interviews with Arthur W. Staats. For the last fifty years A. W. Staats has made important contributions in developmental psychology, learning Psychology, emotional behavior, language, behavioral theory and theoretical unification in psychology. His theoretical proposal, Psychological Behaviorism (PB), is illustrated as a non-eclectic framework for un...

This paper attempts to discuss behaviorism and the construction of knowledge. This review investigates whether behaviorism methodology has any advantages in learning a language in our classroom. This assessment also observes the critics of behaviorism and its weaknesses in a learning environment. This inquiry concentrates on the view point of B.F Skinner, one of the most outspoken behaviorism p...

The evolution of behaviorism from its explicit beginning with John B. Watson’s declaration in 1913 to the behaviorisms of the present is considered briefly. Contributions of behaviorism to scientific psychology then and now are critically assessed, arriving at the conclusion that regardless of whether or not its opponents and proponents are aware, the essential points of behaviorism have now be...

Overview of Theory When Rotter developed his Social Learning Theory, the dominant perspective in clinical psychology at the time was Freud's Psychoanalysis, which focused on people's deepseated instinctual motives as determining behavior. Individuals were seen as being naive to their unconscious impulses, and treatment required long-term analysis of childhood experience. Even learning approache...

externalim currently dominating the theory of meaning and content. However, foundational issues such as these remain insuffi ciently explored; because of the role the shared environment plays in radical interpretation, Davidson thought of himself as a social and physical externalist, though clearly not of the mainstream kind (cf. 2001 ) . So long as a systematic comparison of these competing ac...

A substantial portion ofB. F. Skinner's scholarship was devoted to developing methods and terms for a scientific study of behavior. Three concepts central to scientific accounts—cause, explanation, and theory—are examined to illustrate the distinction between mechanistic and relational frameworks and radical behaviorism's relationship to those frameworks. Informed by a scientific tradition that...

This purpose of this paper is to identify implications of various learning theories for workplace learning and performance and HRD. It begins with a review of various theoretical positions on learning including behaviorism, Gestalt theory, cognitive theory, schema theory, connectionist theory, social learning or behavior modeling, social perspective theory, and situated cognition theory. Implic...

The aim of this article is to provide a concise overview the theoretical assumptions behaviorism, which generally informs “traditional” approaches sport coaching. B.F. Skinner's (1904–1990) theory operant conditioning discussed, alongside considerations for coaching practice. For coaches who draw upon principles conditioning, four reflective questions are posed. This does not attempt present be...