Running head: HUMANIST/BEHAVIOR LEARNING THEORY Final Paper Humanist/Behaviorist Learning Theory Curriculum on Social Psychology B Ann Laughlin Walden University Abstract This paper focuses on humanist and behaviorist theories related to instructional design, defining terms, historical perspective, rationale for social psychology curriculum written from a humanistic/behaviorist curriculum viewpoint, translating theory into practice, and review of models used by humanist/behaviorist curriculum users: Tyler and Taba Models, learning taxonomies. INTRODUCTION This paper focuses on humanist and behaviorist theories related to instructional design, defining terms found within the research literature used for this paper, historical perspective of humanist and behaviorist theories, rationale for social psychology curriculum written from a humanistic/behaviorist curriculum viewpoint, translating theory into practice, and review of models used by humanist/behaviorist curriculum users: Tyler and Taba Models. Definition of Terms Assessing curriculum is to test and evaluate the curriculum. Behaviorist theory is “the oldest [theory] that deals with various aspects of stimulus-response and reinforcers,” which I believe falls within the education field, such as grades (reinforcement/rewards) for school and home work assignments completed within the specified expectations (Ornstein & Hunkins, 2004, p. 100). Elaborative rehearsal is an encoding strategy to facilitate the formation of memory by linking new information to what one already knows. For instance, when trying to remember that someone is named George, one might think of five other things one knows about people named George. Elements of information processing are visual, hearing, and senses.
Chunking is the brain’s process of taking a huge amount of information and breaking it down into smaller sections of information, in order to make the information easier to remember.
Metacognition is the knowledge of...