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Neo Behaviorism and Gestalt Reviewer
Neo Behaviorism and Gestalt Reviewer
3. The imitated behavior itself leads to reinforcing 1. Attention – the person must pay attention to the
consequences. Many behaviors that we learn from model.
others produce satisfying or reinforcing results.
2. Retention – the observer must be able to INEFFECTIVE COGNITIVE PROCESSES – result to
remember the behavior that has been observed. learning difficulties which can be seen anytime during the
– technique-rehearsal. lifetime of an individual.
3. Motor reproduction - the ability to replicate the
behavior that the model has just demonstrated. GESTALT THEORY OF LEARNING
4. Motivation – learners must want to demonstrate • Max Wertheimer - is considered as the Father of
what they have learned. Gestalt Psychology and together with other
EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL pioneers in this field – Kohler, Koffka, and
LEARNING THEORY Lewin, studied perception.
• The term gestalt is a German word which means
1. Students often learn a great deal simply by observing form, pattern or configuration
other people. • The theory explains that in our perception of
objects in the environment, we do not simply see
2. Describing the consequences of behavior can
objects as they are but they try to restructure
effectively increase appropriate behaviors and decrease
them, reorganize them to understand what they
inappropriate ones. This can involve discussing with
sense.
learners about he rewards and consequences of various
• The theory suggests that learners do not simply
behaviors.
collect information as is but they actively process
3. Modeling provides an alternative to shaping for and restructure data in order to understand them.
teaching new behaviors. • That is the perceptual process.
2. Law of Proximity: Makes proximate or near 1. The importance of organization of stimuli and
together things to be picked up first learned as to insight.
how many these are among the more distant • The classroom in which the child is living and learning is
things. In other words, perceptual groups are not simply a body of discrete and unrelated set of stimuli
favoured according to the nearness of their neither his responses to stimuli are trial-and-error
respective parts. It tend to form groups if they are adaptations. In the mind of the child the classroom is
spaced together. organized and has meaning.