IntroductionBased on the question I am asking, in this assignment I will explain what I understand and discover about learning or which can be labeled as behaviorism. What is learning? In psychology the term learning refers to the permanent change in behavior through experience (Lahey, 2012, p. 194). My task will be to explain the concept or perception of learning in the position of behaviorists Ivan Pavlov, John. B Watson, Edward Thorndike, B. F Skinner and Albert Bandura. Through my research in six journals, I would use these journals to critically analyze the perception of the behaviorists I had mentioned. I will try to combine the theories of these researchers from the six journals I reviewed. Learning is very important in our daily life, no matter if we are young or old and from learning we have developed our behavior or personality. We all learn to do many things and to stay or exit from that certain thing. We learn to fear something, to develop better behavior if something pleasant happens or to avoid something unpleasant, and we also learn to think critically and creatively about how to solve a problem. It can be said that learning is the process of observing other people's behavior and perhaps practicing a certain behavior in a specific place or situation. As far as I know, if we want to develop a behavior we have to practice it for twenty-one days and it will automatically become one of our permanent behaviors. In a different situation, the role we represent is different. For example, a student's role is to listen to the teacher's lecture and study, while a staff role is to complete the work or task assigned by the boss. But is it difficult to eliminate a certain behavior? Maybe it's different... halfway through the article... Iversen (1992) explains: “both SR and S'-R'- were paired simultaneously. SR is a reflex observable before conditioning, where S refers to stimuli from food and R refers to some responses involving food ingestion. S'-R is also a reflex but of an investigative type. Such investigative reflexes normally disappear through adaptation. When S' is presented alone after the simultaneous pairing of SR and S'-R', R will be presented without S (p. 2)”.Works CitedMcLeod, S.A. (2008). Classical conditioning. Retrieved from http://www.simplypsychology.org/classical-conditioning.htmlClark, R. E. (2004). The classical origins of Pavlovian conditioning. Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Sciences, 39(4), 279-294.Watson, J. B., & Rayner, R. (2000). Conditioned emotional reactions. American Psychologist, 55(3), 313-317. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.55.3.313
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