What is Learning-Week 3 Behavior Analysis

After studying behavior analysis this week, I would add to my definition of learning by presenting the idea that learning is refinement of your thinking, attitudes, and behaviors. We should all be striving to better ourselves each day and try to become valuable and productive members of our community and society. Our thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors determine who we are and we should be evaluating those constantly to see if they are inline with what we see ourselves being in the future.

In the few years that I have worked with teenagers in the classroom, I have noticed that those who struggle with school and with life in general are those who don't know who they are, who they want to be, and they aren't able to recognize that their current ways of thinking are holding them back. Those students who do know who they are and what they want to become also seem to understand what personal attributes, such as behaviors, they need to develop in order to be successful. Book smarts are important, but if a student doesn't know how to interact and work with others, or how to get things done on time, they may not be very successful. I would say learning these type of behaviors and attitudes are just as important as learning what's in the books or the curriculum.