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Silva, Francisco J.; Yuille, Ruhiyyih; Peters, Lisa K. – Teaching of Psychology, 2000
Presents a method for illustrating the continuity of behavior during schedules of reinforcement, focusing on a demonstration on computer-controlled movement tracking. Discusses how this method can be used to illustrate and stimulate discussion about topics such as the acquisition of operant behavior. (CMK)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Course Content, Demonstrations (Educational), Laboratories
Casas, Martha – 2002
B.F. Skinner applied his concept of operant conditioning to education. Skinner believed that people acted the way they did because they had been reinforced for behaving in a certain manner. His orientation to pedagogy was predicated upon the notion that a student's behavior could be modified by guiding the student through the learning process…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Lin, Fan-Yu; Kubina, Richard M., Jr. – Behavior Analyst Today, 2004
This article reviews the basics of learning channels and how specification of stimuli can help enhance verbal behavior. This article will define learning channels and the role of the ability matrix in training verbal behavior.
Descriptors: Stimuli, Verbal Communication, Matrices, Learning Processes
Verbist, R., Ed.; And Others – Scientia Paedagogiea Experimentalis, 1978
This journal of educational research contains five papers written by a group of international authors. The first is a study of change in professional attitudes of student teachers that investigated the nature and extent of the change in their professional attitudes, and compared sex differences. The second paper is a technical examination of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Attitude Change, Educational Objectives