Let's say I'm in the art class and at the end of the class I would shake a tambourine and tell the students to begin cleaning up. I would repeat this for the first couple of weeks. By the third week, I would just shake the tambourine and not say anything. Hopefully the students will automatically start putting their art supplies away.
Thursday, September 22
Module 9 post 2
In this video clip from The Office, Jim is using classical conditioning on Dwight. Classical conditioning expresses that an unconditioned stimulus (Jim offering the altoid) and its unconditioned response (Dwight automatically taking the altoid) can be paired with a neutral stimulus (bell from the computer). The neutral stimulus now becomes a conditioned stimulus and provokes a conditioned/ learned response. The change in Dwight's behavior shows that learning happened.
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I agree that classical conditioning would definitely work with your tambourine scenario. But wouldn't it be easier to just tell the students to put the art supplies away from the start to finish, without incorporating tambourine-shaking into it at all? I feel like classical conditioning is most effective when teaching skills and new concepts to students, but it just sounds slightly redundant to use it for this reason. But I do agree that this scenario is definitely how classical conditioning works.
ReplyDeleteYour example here is great. You don't explain what exactly is being paired, but I can easily guess.
ReplyDeleteHow could you pair something to teach art content? Can you use paired association to teach proper behaviors in drawing or painting?