B Pasquale Ed Psych

         My cooperating teacher uses behaviorist techniques in her classroom to help students learn everyday. In fact, the idea I got for operant conditioning came from watching my cooperating teacher do it as well. I didn't realize, at the time, that what she was doing was a behaviorist technique.          She used shaping and token economy to help students examine, remember, and create their own MyPlate. They started with listing the food groups that are on MyPlate and used a token economy (raffle tickets) as positive reinforcement for their correct choices. They went on to discuss portion sizes of those food groups and continued giving them raffle tickets as reinforcement. Then they began placing foods in the food groups, resulting in more tickets. Finally, they created their own MyPlate using foods they consumed that day, placing them in the food groups they belon...

Social Cognitivism: How does the teacher use modeling/observational learning? Include factors that impact learning from models in your response (attention, retention, production, motivation/reinforcement) as well as the types (live/symbolic) and characteristics (competence, power/prestige, etc.) of models used. Cite specific examples and be sure to include  underlined vocabulary  from the theory in your response.         My cooperating teacher used modeling for a lesson on self-confidence. First, she got the students attention by giving them all a piece of paper and asking them to write down, on one side of the paper, the things they didn't like about themselves. Then, on the other side of the paper, she had them write things that they do like about themselves.         She asked the students if one side was easier to write than the others. The majority of the students said that it was easier to write the things that t...