2:3 Research the following theories of development; explain how the theories and frameworks influence current practice.

Theories of development and frameworks to support development are incredibly important to us working with children and young people. They help us to understand children, how they react to things/situations, their behaviour and the ways they learn. Different theories and ways of working with children have come together to provide frameworks for children’s care, such as Early year’s foundation stage (EYFS) which is used within all child care settings. This encourages us to work together, help and check the development of babies, children and young people, to keep them healthy and safe. It promotes teaching and learning to

* Your Christian/Other worldview – this implies that you understand your worldview and clearly define how it relates to the theories discussed.

I would consider myself as developing with practicing child development theories. However, now that I have spent a couple of weeks with students, making the connection to the literature is easier. After reading the student’s paragraph during an assessment, I observed that most students in the class did not know how to write in cursive script. My mentor and I are in the beginning stages of planning a lesson that I could teach on typography; using type as art to include their signatures on the back of their artwork.

As briefly described in the previous chapter, operant conditioning has its basis in Thorndike’s law of effect. Thorndike’s law states that responses that result in a gratifying effect in a particular situation are more likely to occur in that situation, and responses that result in an inconvenience are less likely to occur again in that situation. Operant conditioning hence involves a reinforcing consequence that is contingent on a response (specified behavior). As a result the operant, which is a reference to the class of responses that result in the reinforcing consequence, is made more probable. Skinner illustrates the concept with an example in which an experimental

The American psychologist B. F Skinner is considered the founding father of operant conditioning. He spent his whole career believing that consequences were the most powerful influences on behavior in regards to what happened right away after the behavior. According to behavioral psychologists, operant conditioning is a form of behavioral learning in which the consequences of behavior such as rewards and punishments influence the probability that the behavior will appear again.

Operant conditioning is a way of learning through rewards or punishments depending on the behavior.

Operant conditioning is the idea of behaviour influenced by rewards and consequences. This idea is founded by psychologist B.F. Skinner who based his idea off another psychologist, Edward Thorndike. There are a lot of things people do that are influenced by rewards by rewards and consequences. Almost everything we do on a daily basis is revolved around operant conditioning. For example, people go to work in order to have money to pay for a roof over their heads and have food to eat. Being able to eat and have a roof over someone’s head is both a reward and a consequence. It is a reward because if the person works, he will be rewarded with basic living needs. It is also a consequence because if the person does not work, he will not have money

I would like to start off by defining the Operant condition is a method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior. In the operant conditioning, an association is made between a behavior and a consequence for that behavior (Cherry 1).This theory was made by B.F. Skinner known as Skinnerian. As a behaviorist, Skinner believed that it was not really necessary to look at internal thoughts and motivations in order to explain behavior. Instead, he suggested, we should look only at the external, observable causes of human behavior (Cherry 1). According to the Power Point, there are three process of Operating Conditions Extinction, Generalization, and Discriminative Stimuli. Extinction is weakening and disappearance of a

Behaviour modification is based off of the experiments by B.F. Skinner and his theory of operant conditioning (Fournier, 2011). Most of the techniques that are used in behaviour modification are attached to the principles of operant and classical conditioning (Rousseau, 2012). Operant conditioning is a type of learning in which an individual's behaviour is modified due to its consequences. It is the process in which humans and animals learn to behave in ways to receive rewards or

As a child/psychology we have several theories and principles we must study and understand while working in the therapeutic setting with children. Theories guide researchers to understand children have different development, emotional growth patterns. By understanding and applying theories it can help care for children and guide the appropriate research plan. Development is define as growth or change within a child that occurs. (Harris, 2008). They were several theorist uses throughout the reading and videos it assist the professional psychologist on different terms and principle that are relevant in the research process such as Erickson Psychosocial Theory: Trust vs. Mistrust: this is where children ask themselves if they can trust the world

This essay will be summarising the contributions and shortcomings of the Cognitive-Developmental theory and firstly explore the background and key concept’s of Piaget’s work behind child development. Secondly Piaget’s ideas about cognitive change and the four stages of development from birth which are the sensorimotor stage, the pre-operational stage, the concrete operational stage and the formal operational stage and how this impacts development. Thirdly the main weaknesses of the cognitive theory and why, and look at whether any studies/theories support or refute Piaget’s theory and if they are credible to apply to real life. Finally determining whether Piaget’s theory

Operant conditioning is also referred to as 'instrumental conditioning' and is reported as a "method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior. Through operant conditioning an association is made between a behavior and a consequence for that behavior." (Cherry, 2007) Operant conditioning was first examined by B.F. Skinner, a behaviorist and this is why it is referr3ed to as 'Skinnerian conditioning'. (Cherry, 2007) Skinner held that "internal thoughts and motivations could not be used in explaining behavior and that human behavior could be explained both by internal and external factors.

Operant conditioning (sometimes referred to as instrumental conditioning) is a method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior. Through operant conditioning, an association is made between a behavior and a consequence for that behavior. For example, when a lab rat presses a blue button, he receives a food pellet as a reward, but when he presses the red button he receives a mild electric shock. As a result, he learns to press the blue button but avoid the red button.

What is the operant conditioning theory? The operant conditioning theory supports the idea that learning is responsible for the change in behavior. One of the most widely known operant conditioner is B. F. Skinner. He believed that the essential learning principles in operant conditioning are positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, and negative punishment. According to (Troutman & Alberto, 2017), B.F. Skinner began testing this theory by working on animals, preferably white rats and sometimes pigeons. In 1963, Skinner explained while he was in the military, “he and his colleagues began to train the pigeons to perform various behaviors” (Troutman & Alberto, 2017). This began Skinner’s preliminary approach to studying human behavior. My goal is to briefly describe the operant conditioning theory, the theorist B.F. Skinner and his beliefs, and then connect how my case study is related.

The first systematic study regarding operant conditioning was taken place in the 1800’s by the Psychologist, Thorndike. Thorndike simply defined operant conditioning as a process of learning to do something to get something in return. Formally defined, operant conditioning is a type of learning that is controlled by the consequences of an organism’s behavior. Operant conditioning can be useful when trying to avoid procrastination, increase efficacy of teaching, and to improve motivation. Therefore, when devising a weight loss program to increase the roommate’s chances of making it on the football team, the program would include the following operant principles and influences: law of effect, reinforcement (negative reinforcement), punishment, discriminative stimuli, and a strict schedule of reinforcement (a fixed interval schedule of reinforcement). Also, the program will be utilizing conditioned stimuli, conditioned responses, unconditioned stimuli, and unconditioned responses.