CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -According to this principle, behavior that is followed by pleasant consequences is likely to be repeated, and behavior followed by unpleasant consequences is less likely to be repeated. Skinner introduced a new term into the Law of Effect-Reinforcement.

Detailed explanation-2: -B.F. Skinner (1904–90) was a leading American psychologist, Harvard professor and proponent of the behaviourist theory of learning in which learning is a process of ‘conditioning’ in an environment of stimulus, reward and punishment.

Detailed explanation-3: -Definition. Reinforcement is defined as strengthening a specific response (Skinner, 1963).

Detailed explanation-4: -Definition. Operant learning occurs when behavior changes as a function of its consequences, i.e., the environmental changes that follow the behavior. This definition is similar to the Law of Effect proposed initially by Edward Thorndike (1874–1949).

Detailed explanation-5: -In Verbal Behavior, Skinner defined verbal behavior generically as “behavior shaped and maintained by mediated consequences” (p. 2). … By mediated consequences, of course, he meant consequences controlled by another person. …