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Post by cameron on Sept 27, 2017 20:42:41 GMT
The behaviorist model is not a stage model of development. Behaviorists believe children develop through a process of conditioning via rewards and punishments in the context of their environment. Behaviorists pay little attention to the internal thoughts and feelings of children, more concerned with outwardly observable behaviors. Other major theorists of development, including Freud, Piaget, Kohlberg, and Erickson developed stage models of development where children's development was characterized by various stages with qualititative differences between them, each stage being characterized by different capabilities and patterns of behavior and cognition. In contrast, the behaviorist model did not formulate a stage model of development, rather than believing in stages with qualitative differences in ability, behaviorists considered all of development to feature learning through conditioning. So where stage model theorists purported that certain abilities were particular to certain stages, with conditions requried to be met to reach a stage, for behavoirists abilities were determined by conditioning, and what had not been learned had merely not been conditioned according to the behaviorist model.
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