Social Cognitive Theory

This theory says that with the reinforcers, people make expectations, which can be good or also bad. E.g. when you study rely hard for an exam, and you obtain a good grade, you are sure that for the next time will happen the same. Or when you make a homework of too many pages and you didn't sleep because you were finishing it, and the grade you receive is not the one you expected, you start to not taking care of that subject.

Also this theory says that by Modeling, which is copying the behavior of other someone learn. Everyday examples would be to write, or to talk, or learn to make a mathematical problem. You start to make what you see.

Behaviorism

In this theme we learned about Pavlov's experiment with a dog. with this he studied the dog's unconditioned stimulus (without any training), which was the meat power and it began to salivate which is the unconditioned response. The dog made a classical conditioning that is when you are taught or trained with a neutral stimulus and a unconditioned stimulus to have a unconditioned response. With this "routine" you obtain a conditioned response. you have 3 stages: stimulus, response and reinforcement.

But what's a reinforcement?

A reinforcement could be positive or negative. The positive may help the person to increase the likelihood for that behavior and it will became a habit. they are pleasant consequences because of you behavior. Reinforcement is vital for the learning process. Some examples: good grades, recognition, privileges, certificates, thumb-up sign, etc.

Negative reinforcers weaken behavior and they are called punishers. Some examples: time ot, removal or presentation punishment.

Also skinner said language is a form of behavior determined by stimulus, control and reinforcement;that there are 3 processes in learning a language: receiving the knowledge, fixing it in the memory by repetition, and practicing.