Being born in the United States and keeping a strong bond with my parent’s homeland, Mexico, has made me realize that I agree with many theory’s that Gloria Anzaldúa, author of, Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, has defended in her book. Anzaldúa seems to believe that no one should ever be allowed to quiet someone of their native language, the way that some Americans prohibit Mexicans to speak Spanish. In addition to that, Anzaldúa also takes up time writing about her theory of Mexican women. Anzaldúa believes that Mexican men make themselves superior to women and she seems to blame the Mexican women for allowing men to take the role of being dominant over the Mexican women. Lastly, Anzaldúa goes on writing about how she believes that the lives of Mexicans and Americans would be less confrontational if only they were willing to make borders into crossroads in which they all had a part of each other’s culture. All in all, Anzaldúa makes statements in her book about some of the many theories I agree with, which Anzaldúa presents in her book are theories about, language, culture, and borders.…
Albert Bandura was born in Mundare, Canada in 1925. He was raised in a small farming community in Canada. Bandura received his B.A. degree from the University of the British Columbia in 1949. In 1952, he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. During his studying at the University Iowa, he developed the social learning theory. That determined behaviour. In 1953, Albert Bandura accepted a position as a psychology professor at the University of Stanford and he is currently employed there today.…
Behaviorism is one of the most used theories in education. Due to it can fit in both a classroom setting and at home. Educators had sought out the reason why for many years. But due to each child learns a different way so should the educator. Behaviorism was study by many great Psychologists over the years. Just to name some that had done work and publish books on the subject are, John Watson, Ivan Pavlov, Clark Hull, and B.F. Skinner.…
The game of basketball has grown rapidly since Dr. James Naismith invented the game at Springfield College in December 1891. Basketball is now the most popular indoor sport in the world, and it has made billions of dollars for leagues like the NBA (National Basketball Association). It has been over a century since the first game of basketball was played and throughout all of the different eras basketball has been through no player has been more dominant than Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan was like a lion in the jungle, the basketball court was his domain, his empire, his kingdom.…
Children have an inborn desire to please and gain approval, if they don’t gain this through the acknowledgement of positive behaviour they are more likely to use challenging or negative behaviour. By reinforcing positive behaviour we encourage children to seek attention as a result of appropriate rather than inappropriate behaviour and we are modelling the kind of behaviour that we feel is appropriate.…
In 1986 Albert Bandura, the developer of this theory, wrote Social Foundations of Thought and Action, which outlines his social learning theory.…
Firstly, when looking at best practice strategies in our setting it is evident that a number of theorists have had much impact on how we interact and engage children in their learning and development. Theorists focused on cognitive development such as Piaget and Vygotsky stressed the importance of the social environment in helping children realise their potential. Whilst behaviourists like Skinner believed that children learn/develop through consequences and reinforcements after an initial behaviour.…
References: American Academy of Pediatrics. (2012). Feeding and Nutrition: Your Three-Year Old. Retrieved from http://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/preschool/Pages/default.aspx…
Some of psychology’s best known theorists have developed theories to help explore and explain different aspects of child development. Today we can draw on a variety of theories and perspectives in order to understand how children grow, behave and think.…
Bandura has up to 36 metal strings (called Pristrunki) fan out to tuning pins placed around the edge of the instrument that has a thick rim hold them. In the period until the 1940s, Bandura was also often referred to by the term Kobza (is a Ukrainian folk music instrument). In the early time, Bandura had 6 to 12 strings. However, during the 20th century, the number of strings increased to 31 strings, and up to 68 strings, and it is typically used as a concert instrument in Ukraine. From the 16th to the 19th century, most of the musicians who played Bandura were normally blind and with the aid of their horses travelled throughout Ukraine, and their songs were based on the purposes that tried to unity the bandurists into a kind of brotherhood and musical guild.Nepal…
Reinforcing positive behaviour; this approach is well known and focusses on praising children when they have shown positive behaviour so they will be more likely to repeat this behaviour.…
Albert Bandura was a psychologist who came up with what is known as the “Social Cognitive Theory” (“Albert Bandura,” 2015). He believed that two aspects, imitation and operant conditioning, result in social learning. According to Hannum (2005), “Bandura noted that our behavior is changed when we see a person take a specific action and be rewarded for that action”. This is where both operant conditioning and imitation comes in. Operant conditioning is any learning that is established through the use of punishments/behaviors (Cherry, 2015). In order for imitation to be successful, there are elements such as direct and vicarious reinforcements (Lefrancois, 2012, p. 326-327).…
Abrams,D,B., and Niaura ,R,S. (1987) ‘Social learning theory’, in Blane,H.T and Leonard ,K.E(Eds) Psychological Theories of Drinking and Alcoholism,…
William Corsaro’s (2006), approach was somewhat different to Bigalow and La Gaipa (1975). Corsaro (2006), observed children by socially interacting with them and observed their behaviour using the “reactive method”. By becoming part of this group he believed that once you re accepted by the group you will become familiar to them and important issues will be shared amongst their peers enabling him to get a more of a complex picture of what is happening within the group.…
Bastable (2003) suggest behaviourism is concerned with learning. According to Brennan (2003) a person’s behaviour, including their personality, is learnt. As children we are tabula rasa, which means we do not have any innate behaviour, we learn these as a result of conditioning. Watson’s famous but highly unethical “little Albert experiment” highlights the influence of conditioning. Driscoll (2000) suggests that behaviourism offers a particular perspective on how learning occurs and how teaching impacts that process. Green et al (2000) propose that only evident, measurable behaviour is the appropriate object for psychology. Bandura posits that people learn from one another by habituation, association and reward but also by observing…