Louise..can anyone help? Theorists

Stuck.. Which Theorist/s would link to these senerios?

Edward is given a certificate for good behaviour all week.This was given to him in assembley.

Children learnt about spiders, counted legs, made model spiders.learnt songs Incy Wincy Spider, Little Miss Muffet, but this week they r going to learn about Ladybirds.

I have done some but now the brain is not working..I would appreciate if, anyone can help...

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Edward is given a certificate for good behaviour all week.This was given to him in assembley.
Edward Thorndike or B F Skinner

Children learnt about spiders, counted legs, made model spiders.learnt songs Incy Wincy Spider, Little Miss Muffet, but this week they r going to learn about Ladybirds.
Jerome Bruner

Thankyou so much, ur a pal...Im going to bed now, had enough...

[SamHill]

Re the certificate - positive reinforcement - B.F. Skinner. "The main purpose of reinforcement is to shape, and then maintain, particular behaviour, so a reinforcer can be anything which leads to some behaviour being repeated." (Davenport G.C., 1994, An Introduction to Child Development, Second Edition, Collins Educational)

This relates to "operant conditioning" - they key feature of this is that the subject behaves in some way that is followed by some "reward".

Might also be worth researching EL Thorndike.


Re the Spider - Cognitive Development - Piaget - counting legs - if touching when counting this is relevant because "children under 7 years of age benefit from actually handling objects when adding or subtracting and carrying out other simple mathematical tasks." (This is a reference from a book by Tassoni, P, 2007, Child Development 6 to 16 years, Heinemann).

Don't know how else to tie in the buggy bits but hope I have helped.

Sam

Thankyou so much Sam, helped alot,appreciate it...