Characteristics common to behavioral approaches in university teaching
1. Describe three characteristics common to behavioral approaches in university teaching.
2. What is PSI, and who was its founder?
3. What is currently the preferred term for the disability previously referred to as “mental retardation”?
4. List four psychological problems that have been effectively treated with behavior therapy.
5. What is health psychology?
6. List five areas of application within health psychology.
7. List three behaviors of elderly persons that have been improved with behavior modification.
8. Define behavioral community psychology.
9. Define organizational behavior management (OBM).
10. Define behavioral sport psychology.
11. List four behaviors in business, industry, or government that have been modified by behavior modification.
12. List four areas of application of behavioral sport psychology.
Sample Solution
Human behavior is learned, thus all behaviors can be unlearned and new behaviors learned in its place. Behaviorism is concerned primarily with the observable and measurable aspects of human behavior. It is a general approach that is used in a variety of settings including both clinical and educational. Characteristics common to behavioral approaches in university teaching include: students are given opportunities to demonstrate their mastery of the course content through frequent tests (based in the study questions) or some combination of tests and assignments; and students are given detailed information at the beginning of a course about what is expected of them on the tests and assignments in order to achieve various letter grades.
