BEHAVIORISM AND LEARNING: ANIMALS TO HUMAN

Abstract

The article incorporated the (missing) links of those doctrines, disciplines and experimental studies that were widely acknowledged as roots of the behaviorism within educational domain. The behavioristic studies commenced, prior to Watson, by a series of experiments on animals’ behavior and the inferred findings were extensively applied in educational context – particularly of Skinner – relating with instructional pattern, time domain, contingency and learning styles. In the educational context, the behavioristic methods of investigations widely moved from experiments to survey methods which are evidenced by its most applied and debatable doctrines such as learning styles