Assignment Content 1. Will put book info in chat APA 7 edition format with scholarly references tittle of paper is reflection on behaviorism and learning Top of Form When first learning about...

Reflection on behaviourism and learning
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REFLECTION ON BEHAVIOURISM AND LEARNING
According to the theory of Behaviourism, behaviours are learned through environment stimuli and response to that stimulus. It doesn’t depend upon the internal mental processes of a person (J.B Watson, 1914). The learning theory states that the behaviour is learned through environmental actions and the role of heredity is very less in learning (JE, 2016). It includes how a person acquire, process, and retain a particular behaviour which could be based on his prior experiences or learnt through any environmental factor (J et al., 2013). For example, during parenting sometimes parents offer a reward or punishes if a child behaves in a desirable manner such as if the toddler uses a spoon while eating or washes his hands on his own, then he will be rewarded by a candy in the hope for attaining the desired behaviour. If not, then sometimes parents punish their kid so that in future, the child won’t repeat the same thing again. I am a single parent with two kids one who goes to school and my second child is a toddler. My toddler learns many things by imitating his elder sister or me. This type of behaviour learning is an example of observational learning. Another example is the incentives provided by the companies to its employees whenever their performance is excellent so in the hope of the incentives the employees try to...