1) Chapter 2 in our text (Lefrancois, 2012) describes Guthrie’s theories for breaking habits. One bad habit that I struggled with was relentlessly twirling my hair when writing a paper. After reading the text I decided I could use Guthrie’s method of incompatible stimuli to break my habit. This method involves the stimulus being presented in a situation where the bad habit cannot happen (Lefrancois, 2012). To do this I would write my papers with my hair tied up in a ponytail. Doing this allowed the stimulus, me writing a paper, to occur when my hair could not be played with since it was secured in the ponytail. According to Guthrie this could help replace my bad habit of twirling my hair with a different response (Lefrancois, 2012).
2) Chapter 3 in the text (Lefrancois, 2012) explains Hull’s complex hypothetico-deductive system. This system sought to logically explain behavior (output variables) by accounting for observable stimulus variables (input variables) as well as a wide range of conditional variables (intervening variables) (Lefrancois, 2012). After Reading about this system I learned that whether or not I drink coffee at work could depend on an interaction between many variables. Theses variables include: the number of times I’ve been at …show more content…
Scaffolding involves learning at a basic level and then building upon those basic skills to more advanced levels (Lefrancois, 2012). When I was learning how to make pottery on the throwing wheel, my teacher taught me how to make each form in a specific order. First I was taught how to make a cylinder. Next I was taught how to make a bowl because it involved first making a cylinder then altering it. After bowl was learning how to make a plate because it involved the same steps at cylinders and bowls. Being taught this way used scaffolding because without knowing the basic skill of cylinders first I could not have made a
2) Chapter 3 in the text (Lefrancois, 2012) explains Hull’s complex hypothetico-deductive system. This system sought to logically explain behavior (output variables) by accounting for observable stimulus variables (input variables) as well as a wide range of conditional variables (intervening variables) (Lefrancois, 2012). After Reading about this system I learned that whether or not I drink coffee at work could depend on an interaction between many variables. Theses variables include: the number of times I’ve been at …show more content…
Scaffolding involves learning at a basic level and then building upon those basic skills to more advanced levels (Lefrancois, 2012). When I was learning how to make pottery on the throwing wheel, my teacher taught me how to make each form in a specific order. First I was taught how to make a cylinder. Next I was taught how to make a bowl because it involved first making a cylinder then altering it. After bowl was learning how to make a plate because it involved the same steps at cylinders and bowls. Being taught this way used scaffolding because without knowing the basic skill of cylinders first I could not have made a