Comparison Of Two Psychological Perspectives, Cognitive And Behaviorism

In life, humanity is on a journey much like walking through a forest full of trees that requires consistent observation while navigating the path traveled. Remaining on course is a very important part of arriving at the destination of achievement and success. There is no way to have complete certainty of always arriving on time, as all the variables come into the picture of that journey which psychology also does in relation to the mind. The psychodynamic theory in comparison to the cognitive behavior theory is somewhat well viewed in focus of examining the mental process of what one does based upon what one has thought of doing. To consider the contrast of

Behaviorism and humanism are two theories of learning. Both theories are very important, and have many good qualities, which makes it difficult to say that one is better than the other. When it comes to learning, behaviorism does not consider mental processes, rather it looks at our response to stimuli in our environment. Whereas, humanism sees learning as personal, and is dependent on each individual self. Even though the two theories seem completely opposite of each other, there are some similarities between them pertaining to learning.

In Psychology learning is seen as a change in behaviour caused by an experience. Behaviorism, is seen as a learning theory; an attempt to explain how people or animals learn by studying their behaviour. The Behaviourists Approach has two theories to help explain how we learn, Classical conditioning and operant conditioning. In this task I will attempt to describe and evaluate this approach.

One key element between both theories is that they both consist of reinforcement and punishment mechanisms in order to explain behavior. For social learning theory, children may be exposed to an aggressive environment, such as in the Bobo doll study, where they see an adult punching or engaging in aggressive behavior. If the adult is reinforced, the child will want to perform the behavior. If the adult is punished, the child will most likely not engage in the behavior. In behaviorism, however, behaviors may be reinforced or punished using operant conditioning, which will be explained later.

According to (Bandura, 1986)Cognitive theories are based on how people perceive situation, think, speak, remember and problem solve, behaviorism is learning mannerisms from the environment around you. Social cognitive is what people learn by watching others. All three of these skills contribute to the human development cycle and help to shape how we interact with other people. With them all having so much in common there are also a few key pointer tell how they all have there own way of shaping the human life and mind set even though the behaviorism theory and social theory show that they have similar mannerisms but they are different because of the

The cognitive theory also believes in learning from prior experiences. They believe prior experiences, knowledge, and expectations are key to learning (Learnativity, 2002). The cognitive theory has a great way of thinking. Many self-help books have been written on the cognitive point-of-view. They believe that by changing our thoughts we can change our mood, decrease our anxiety, or improve our relationships. By thinking more positively we can easily quit smoking, make more friends, enjoy our job, pretty much do anything we set our mind to. Their basic premise is, if we perceive the glass as half full rather than half empty, the world will look much brighter. And in a

Learning has become a central focus in this fast developing world. Education is becoming more and more valuable due to economic advancements. According to text on page 307, "Learning can be defined as a relatively permanent influence on behavior, knowledge and thinking skills that comes about through experience." Each person has a unique way of learning, and for a child, it is the teacher's responsibility to understand how each child learns. There are several different learning theories. However, we will be discussing these three main theories Behavioral, Social Cognitive, and Information Processing.

The difference is that the behaviorist approach declines completely to recognize any kind of inner processing. Instead it reasons that we perform in an almost robotic like manner after being conditioned to respond to incitements in a particular way. our behavior is very strongly influenced by our cognitive processes. The cognitive approach sees our behavior as the result of internal states and changes.

There are major differences between behaviorism and cognitive theory. Behaviorism has three components behavior analysis, stimulus-response, and the social learning theory. The first component focuses on the consequences of a behavior, in this case this the responses to Juan’s actions. Juan will eventually not finish school due to his failure to do the work. The second component is stimulus response, this is when environmental factors affect behavior.

Although, I think I am able to keep my cool under certain situations I do happen to have some anger. I think this trait developed in many ways. According to the Cognitive Approach it, “explains anger to be because of fault reasoning and a reliance on irrational beliefs” (Burger, 2015, p. 416). I believe that my anger is related to relying on a group of irrational beliefs. I have the tendency to believe that I must be competent, adequate and achieve in all important respects. I tend to believe that when a situation arrives it triggers these irrational beliefs and the emotional consequence of being anger comes about. This irrational way of thinking brings a rage of anger and frustration because I believe that I must meet those irrational beliefs. On the other

During this chapter, it discussed many different behavioral views of learning. The chapter began by talking about the different ways the students learn. With the beginning stages of learning such as remembering things and putting the memories together. When they are similar or when they contrast from each other. This is the beginning way for younger students to start putting things together, from what they learn in the classroom or at home. During this time a students will start to learn positive and negative behaviors. Teachers who teach at a younger age level tend to use reinforcements to give positive feedback on something that a student does well. In the book Educational Psychology it states, “Whether the consequences of any actions are

Behaviourism showed two main ways that somebody was able to learn. One of them being classical conditioning and the other operant conditioning.

In Psychology there are many different theories; especially about development. And, just like every theory there are pros and cons. Each theory was created by different people with their own perspective and their own biases. It would be ignorant to say that one theory had all the answers. There were two theories I read about that caught my attention, Cognitive and Behavioral. I have heard about the growing popularity of Cognitive Behaviorists and I am curious about how they are similar and different.

Our text explains that the cognitive approach suggests that the learner controls learning, and they may come to training with their own set of goals and priorities.” Whereas the behaviorist come to training with a specific goal and believe the “environment controls the learning outcome.” (Blanchard / Thacker, 2010)

According to Blanton (2007), there are many general assumptions of cognitive learning theories such as some learning processes being unique to human beings and cognitive processes are the focus of the study. Another assumption of the theories is that objective, systematic observations of people’s behavior should be the focus of