Below are four possible explanations for Laura's behavior. Which ...

[nelaaney]

Below are four possible explanations for Laura's behavior. Which one is most consistent with a behaviorist (rather than cognitive) approach to learning and development?
 
  a. Laura's social goals seem to take precedence over her academic goals.
  b. Laura is focused on performance goals rather than on mastery goals.
  c. Because Laura hasn't been punished for her tardiness to study hall, this behavior continues unabated.
  d. Laura attributes Mr. Marculescu's series of challenging questions to a general unreasonableness on his part.

Question 2

As a teacher, what things might you do to help students develop effective study strategies?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[canderson530]

Answer to Question 1

c.

Answer to Question 2

There are numerous possibilities here, including the following:
 Point out specific ways in which students can learn particular pieces of information as the information is presented during the course of a lesson. To illustrate, a teacher might tell students, You can remember that dire (pronounced similarly to dear) means to say' by remembering I say, my dear.'
 Describe and model effective strategies (e.g., by explaining what verbal mediation is and by providing examples of how to use it to connect French words with their meanings).
 Conduct an experiment in class in which students study some course material using a relatively ineffective strategy (e.g., rehearsal) and then study other material using a more effective strategy

[nelaaney]

TYSM

[deja]

Gracias!