behaviourism
- Behaviour as a response to stimuli; into the idea of conditioning e.g. ‘Pavlov’s Dog’
- Conditioned Stimuli and Response
- Squeaking Doors the Parotid Salivary Gland!
- Consciousness, mind, mind-body duality; rejected because they cant be verified
- Formal, quantative method of human psychology
- Initially the primary goals of Behaviourism was how to predict and control human behaviour
Theorists...
Philosophy: Hobbes, Comte
PEDaGOGY: pavlov, THORNDIKE, WATSON, TOLMAN, SKINNER, SUPPES
cognitivism
Theorists
Philosophy: Kant, dewey
pedagogy: PIAGET, AUSUBEL, BRUNER, PAPERT
- Awareness of cognitive process
- Belief in consciousness as central to learning process
- How thought is organised and processed
- See also CBT/Mindfulness and Multiple Intelligences (Gardner)