image from www.google.ca/imagesYesterday in class we did an operant conditioning writing activity. We wrote an example of classroom use for each of the four types of conditioning. This activity helped solidify the key points for me and hear some different types of classroom use that my student peers had thought of. We also had to indicate the desired behavior change and what will be done to stimulate the change.
My examples include:
Positive reinforcement- giving students fake money to buy things in the classroom store for behaving respectfully.
desired behavior change: have students behave responsibility
stimulate change: encourage students with fake money for class store
Negative reinforcement- taking away one assignment so students focus more on a different one
desired behavior: students will work on other assignment
stimulate change: taking away an assignment
Positive punishment- adding an extra assignment because class disbehaving
desired behavior change: class will be behave
stimulate change: add extra work
Negative punishment- take away recess because student disbehaving
desired behavior: students will behave
stimulate change: take away recess
An example (I recognize it was just an example) I thought was questionable in class was if a student finished their test early they got to skip other tests. I thought this was questionable as, we just learned and been discussing in our posts students who have learning disabilities. Perhaps some students need a bit more time to process the questions than others-- just a point I thought of when heard this example.
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