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Date Posted: 21:32:41 01/31/07 Wed
Author: Evelyn Moore
Subject: Behaviorism

It is true that there are many theories or world views on behaviorism: cognitive perspective, behavioral perpective, and psychoanalytic perspective. I agree with the Chapter 2 Focus article that there is no one theoretical perspective that explains people's behavior. However, when working in the classroom environment everyday you have to assess the best way to effect positive change in the lives of the students. Regardless of the socio-economic or cultural ethnic status every day produces different results. What worked yesterday or last week may not work today. In some classrooms today, the teacher has to be like a hostage negotiater. Most teachers are not trained in this capacity, therefore, the atmostphere is lost and controlled by the student. On the contrary I do not have this problem as I operate as a general, from the beginning, I focus on the cognitive perspective taking the student from where they are to where I want them to be socially, emotionally and physically. How the student acts is not as important as how they think. I believe if we can change how people think we can change their lives in positive directions.

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