Piaget vs Vygotsky / behaviourist vs constructive?

Albert Bandura (behaviourist) (bobo doll studies):

Children learn about social behaviour by:

• Watching other people – (observational learning)

• Imitating other people

• Doing something they take pleasure in (intrinsic reinforcement). This will cause them to repeat an activity behaviour.

Banduras key ideas:

• Children model themselves on adults that are present in their lives

• Children’s thought processes are affected by their age

Burrhus Skinner (behaviourist) (operant conditioning):

Skinner experimented on rats and pigeons. He used his concepts of positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement to shape the animals behaviour. For example, he fed them if they did as he required. However he punished them with an electric shock if they went near an area of the cage he did not want them to.

• Skinner believed children respond similarly to adults who show them positive and negative reinforcement towards certain aspect of their behaviour. With positive reinforcement they will be encouraged to repeat an reinforcement they will be encouraged to repeat an experience thus developing their learning. Skinner felt children’s learning is related to their responses to external stimuli.

• He believed children learn from their experiences and that they only repeat the experiences that are enjoyable.

Ivan Pavlov (behaviourist) (classical conditioning):

Pavlov experimented on salivating dogs. He produced a ‘conditional stimulus’ which was the sound of a church bell ringing at the same time as producing an un-conditioned stimulus (food) in front of the dog.

Eventually the dog would produce saliva (an in-conditioned response) whenever it heard the sound of the church bells ringing because it associated it with food.

Pavlov related this experiment to children’s behaviour and believed he could control it by producing a condition response.

An example may be a school bell that signals to children that it is play time.

The Behaviourists named above definately support the use of rewards systems. Neither Piaget or Vygotsky were behaviourists.

You must be an education major.

The most popular behaviorist was Skinner. Piaget and Vygotsky were both Constructivists.

Vygotsky would support the idea of rewards in the classroom because he believed that you learn from social interactions.

Piaget believed that you learn from your enviornment and then construct your own meaning.

Vygotsky And Piaget

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