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    one person may think is the best way to teach may not be the same as another and that is okay. Learning psychology went over a few different techniques of how a person learns new information. One that stuck with me the most is Operant conditioning. Operant conditioning uses positive and negative reinforcement and punishment. From what I have seen and experienced growing up the use of reinforcement is very helpful in teaching someone. The use of the reinforcement will get a student to want to

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    The values-learned perspective states that police officers learn their ethical or unethical behavior through indoctrination into the law enforcement organization they are a part of. The indoctrination into the subculture molds and shapes the behavior of new officers and as they learn to behave like their colleagues‚ what is expected of them in order to be included becomes their moral standard. One example of this from the audio recording is the officers who worked with Adrian Schoolcraft. These officers

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    Classical Conditioning vs. Skinner’s Operant Conditioning Jonathan Grunden Elizabethtown Community and Technical College   Jonathan Grunden Diane Owsley Psychology 110 September 23‚ 2015 Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning vs. Skinner’s Operant Conditioning Throughout psychology there have been many methods to explain the development of how people act and respond to different things. The two methods that I find most interesting are the Learning Principles of Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning and Skinner’s

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    topic of language acquisition. Today‚ most researchers acknowledge that both nature and nurture play a role in language acquisition. However‚ some researchers emphasize the influences of learning on language acquisition‚ while others emphasize the biological influences. Receptive Language before Expressive Language Children’s ability to understand language develops faster than their ability to speak it. Receptive language is the ability to understand language‚ and expressive language is the ability

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    How Organism Learn: Classical and Operant Conditioning There are two main explanations of how organisms learn. The first explanation is known as classical conditioning. The second explanation is known as operant conditioning. These two types of learning are exhibited in our everyday lives through our home‚ school‚ and school. Classical conditioning was discovered by Iran Petrovich Pavlov. He was originally a physiologist whose main focus was the digestive system (Gazzaniga 230).

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    Thomas Spadafora Psy 121 11/02/12 The Application Of Operant Conditioning Techniques In A Secondary Classroom Background A plethora of Studies have reported the effectiveness of operant conditioning techniques in altering the behavior of children in a number of different situations. There has been many studies in which teacher-supplied consequences have had effects on preschool and elementary school children in a regular classroom‚ but almost none in the secondary schooling classrooms

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    Child language development Chapter 2: children bilingualism * Introduction Language acquisition is among the main topics that intrigued psychologists‚ linguists and philosophers over time. In their efforts to define this complex phenomena‚ researchers have kept records of how children in advance from babbling‚ to words‚ to complex utterances. Since the 1960s‚ they have paid deep attention to the acquisition of different languages (SLOBIN 1985-19991) and the stages children go through

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    Second Language Acquisition Theories Jessica Bogunovich November 10‚ 2014 Second Language Acquisition Theories According to the United States Department of Education‚ National Center for Education Statistics (2014)‚ there are approximately 4.4 million English language learners (ELL) in American public schools. This is a little over nine percent of the student population. In some states‚ such as California and Texas‚ this percentage is much higher. California currently has an ELL

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    Investigating Second Language Acquisition Required Texts VanPatten‚ B.‚ & Williams‚ J. (2007). Theories in second language acquisition: an introduction. Mahwah‚ N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Additional Readings Braidi‚ S. (1999). The acquisition of second-language syntax. London New York: Arnold ;Co-published in the United States by Oxford University Press. DeKeyser‚ R. (2007). Skill Acquisition Theory. In B. VanPatten & J. Williams (Eds.)‚ Theories in Second Language Acquisition (pp. 97-114)

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    Second Language Acquisition Assignment: The subject assignment consists of answering this question:  According to Swain‚  ... producing the target language may be the trigger that forces the learner to pay attention to the means of expression needed in order to successfully convey his or her  own  intended  meaning.  (Swain 1985: 249)  In Swain’s view‚ learners need not only input‚ but output: they need to use language in order to learn it.  Krashen‚ however‚ as recently as 2009‚ stated that: 

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