Behavior
The most common version of the behaviorist perspective...
operant conditioning
Motivation is the equivalent of...
a student's outward behaviors.
It may lead teachers to ... students' choices and preferences, by making choices on their behalf.
ignore
... stimulus that increases likelihood of a behavior.
Reinforcement
Behaviorism focuses almost completely on what can be directly seen or heard about...
a person's behavior
Sometimes it is useful to think of motivation as ... to the student’s outward behaviors.
equivalent
The ... of student's specific behaviors is when what looks like a sign of one motive to the teacher may be a sign of some other motive to the student.
ambiguity
... is the behavior that becomes more likely because of reinforcement.
Operant
In these cases discerning the student’s ... may take more time and effort.
inner motivations
The decrease in ... can be thought of as a loss of motivation, and the removal of the reinforcement can be thought of as the removal of the motivator.
performance frequency
Teachers sometimes lack time and therefore must focus simply on the students' ... over what may be happening inside.
appropriate outward behavior
...stimulus that increases the likelihood of a behavior by being introduced/removed or added or taken away from a situation.
Positive / Negative Reinforcement
The multiple demands of teaching can ... needed to determine what the behaviors of a student mean.
limit the time
When it comes to motivation, the behaviorist perspective means... or even... the distinction between the inner drive or energy of students and the outward behaviors that express the drive or energy as they are nearly the same.
minimizing / ignoring
... approaches that are exclusively behavioral, it is argued, are not sensitive enough to students' intrinsic, self-sustaining motivations.
Intrinsic versus Extrinsic motivation
...how incentives can motivate behaviors through reinforcement.
Incentive Theory
In other cases, the problem may not be limited time as much as ... with a student.
communication difficulties
Concept of extinction is the tendency for learned behaviors to become less likely when reinforcement no longer occurs—a sort of “...,” or at least a decrease in performance of previously learned.
unlearning
... if a teacher relies on rewarding behaviors that they chose themselves, or persists in reinforcing behaviors that students already find motivating.
Reinforcement can backfire
Unlearning is the tendency for learned behaviors to become ... when reinforcement no longer occurs.
less likely