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Issues in Educating for Nurses

This essay discusses learning theories, diverse learners, motivation,and evaluation.There are ten sources listed in the bibliogra...

Assessing Distance Learning Online Class Groups

place. In a face to face scenario there may be first impressions which are inaccurate and also pre-existing prejudices may influen...

Baldrige Award Assessment

In five pages an examination of the Baldrige Award and its encouragement of competitive knowledge and learning is presented....

Failure and Lessons Learned

In 5 pages this creative essay discusses a student's mistake and what was learned about success as a result....

Overview of the Total Learning Textbook

presented within a climate of caring. The behaviorist approach maintains that the basic principles of learning operate acco...

6 Cases and Technology

that companies that imitate the original and enter the market later (de Haviland had a passenger jet before Boeing, but who today ...

6 Articles on Technology

second problem that arises is when one design begins to dominate the market. For instance, what aircraft designer today wants to ...

Watergate: Lessons Learned

involved many different elements that essentially worked towards eliminating or destroying democracy in America (Lichtman, 2005). ...

The Elementary School Classroom

in one corner of the playground there was a collapsible table covered with pots of paste, construction paper, crayons, chalk, scis...

Early Childhood Education Issues

real-world application; otherwise theyre solving problems for the sake of solving problems; this can lead to boredom, irritation a...

Behavior Management - Case Study

The theory is based on the premise that all behavior is learned and it is a result of consequences in the environment. The individ...

Social Engineering and the Law

logical of those options revolve around positive and negative reinforcement. Skinner contended that an organisms behavior was the...

4 Theories of Criminology

illegal activity even when they are wholly aware of what is right and wrong. This accepted justification of antisocial behavior r...

B.F. Skinner and Operant Conditioning

maintain productivity amidst the prison setting, supervisors must also maintain a strict adherence to control and authority so tha...

Life and Work of B.F. Skinner

conditioning is one of the simplest, but most profound discoveries concerning human behavior and the behavior of animals as well. ...

Operant Conditioning, B.F. Skinner, and Criminal Behavior

pigeons to coin the now infamous term "operant conditioning" to describe the phenomenon of learning occurring in response to an or...

B.F. Skinner and Erik Erikson on Personality

In five pages this paper examines Skinner's operant conditioning theory and his views on stimulus and response along with Erikson'...

Skinner and Erikson Theories of Personality

- 35: Intimacy versus isolation. Form intimate relationships. 7. Middle age, ages 35 - 60: Generativity versus stagnation. Goes be...

Behavorism Contributions of B.F. Skinner

In four pages the behavioral sciences contributions of psychologist B.F. Skinner are discussed with the emphasis upon naturalistic...

Science and Human Behavior by B.F. Skinner

B.F. Skinner's famous text which presents his revolutionary operant conditioning theories is reviewed in 10 pages. One source is ...

B.F. Skinner's Contributions

Law of Effect. In the Law of Effect positive effects serve to strengthen the stimulus/response connection while negative effects ...

Everyday Life Examples of Conditioning Theory

B.F. Skinner's theories are examined in this conditioning theory discussion that consists of eight pages with everyday life exampl...

Mothers Who Murder Their Infants

performed. Indeed, there is no argument that mothers who kill their children suffer from mental illness, yet it is the manner by ...

Operant and Classical Behavioral Conditioning

wit a consideration of what classical conditioning is and how it is used, and how it compared with operant conditioning. C...

Food Preferences and the Theories of B.F. Skinner

the way (Psychology.org, 2003). Another aspect of Skinners theory was that of "chaining," in other words, the fact that te...

Skinner Theory

changed Pavlovs original classical conditioning proposal to operant conditioning. Skinners model includes how the environment infl...

Psychological Concepts: Functionalism and Skinner

Part 2. What theoretical concepts are attributed to B. F. Skinner? Which one of these concepts had the greatest effect on the fiel...

Changing Behavior

This essay explains what classical and operant conditioning are. It discusses how politicians, moviemakers, and advertisers use cl...

Educational Psychology

(Darling, 2007). The authoritative parent is demanding but also responsive; this parent is assertive but not restrictive (Darling,...

Skinner's Operant Conditioning

sound of the food dropping and will begin to go to the tray as soon as it hears that sound (Skinner, n.d.). A small lever is next ...