Assignment 2

Answer the following questions:

1. Behaviorism emphasized the environment and the learner’s observable experience

with the environment to explain learning and human development. Can you cite a clear
example of a human behavior that is learned through a stimulus-response type of
experience? Can you cite a clear example that is not?

2. One criticism of Monitor Theory is that it is more descriptive of acquisition than

explanatory in nature. That is, the natural order hypothesis merely describes a
phenomenon in need of explanation. Do you think this is true of the acquisition-learning
distinction? The input hypothesis?