Assignment – Behavioral vs. Cognitive Views of Learning (worth 40 points) END 20

Assignment – Behavioral vs. Cognitive Views of Learning (worth 40 points)
END 203 Fall 2023
Due Date: October 22, 11:55 PM
Now, you have read chapters 7 & 8 – two different views of learning of individuals.
Please address your understanding and opinions of behavioral and cognitive views of learning of
individuals by answering the following questions.
Treena is a bright and personable girl in your sixth-grade class. A large part of your classroom
activities involve class participation through questioning and recitation. Treena, however, never
raises her hand and, when called on, “freezes” and often says nothing. You notice that she is social
with friends. Her shyness seems restricted to speaking before a group. Discussion with her fifth-
grade teacher indicates that the same behavior took place last year. To help Treena become less
inhibited about answering in class, you consider possible strategies or principles suggested by
behavioral theories.
Select three approaches you want/favor among the following 5 approaches, and address how each
approach might be used in a behavioral plan designed to help her.
1. Classical conditioning
2. Positive reinforcement/negative reinforcement
3. Extinction
4. Token reinforcement
5. Contingency contract
Ramona and Ann were walking home from school when they heard the screeching of brakes and
the blare of a horn. Then, just 30 feet in front of them, they saw the crash of a white car and a blue
pickup truck. The next day the children were excitedly telling their friends about what they saw.
“That white car was traveling real fast and swerving from side to side,” Ramona said. “I don’t
remember that,” corrected Ann. “It seemed to me that the truck didn’t stop fast enough at the stop
sign.” “What stop sign?” asked Ramona. “It was on the other street-the white car’s side. Don’t you
remember?” said Ann. The discussion continued this way for the next five minutes, until the
audience of increasingly impatient listeners dwindled down to one faithful friend. Ramona and Ann
weren’t trying to argue, but they couldn’t seem to agree on anything.
1) Discuss how the following memory systems would be involved in perceiving and remembering the
accident: sensory, working, long-term.
2) In trying to remember the events of the preceding day, were the children mainly using semantic
memory or episodic memory? Explain.
3) What is the role of schemas in influencing the children’s recollections?
Instructions for Formatting:
a. Type a question and an answer.
b. Type them in 12 font size.
c. Make the paper double-spaced.
d.No minimum length is required, but the maximum length is 6 pages.