What Social Psychology Says About Behaviorism, and Five Things to Try Instead

About this episode

Dr. Arielle Silverman discusses the limitations of behaviorism in improving children's long-term behavior and presents five alternative strategies.

Join us for “What Social Psychology Says About Behaviorism, and Five Things to Try Instead” with Dr. Arielle Silverman. In this presentation, Dr. Silverman will share research and theory from social psychology explaining why behaviorism (rewards and punishments) so often fails to improve children's long-term behavior. She will then discuss five strategies to use in place of behaviorist methods: co-regulation, communicating clearly and reasonably about behavioral expectations, proactively solv...

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Guest: Dr. Arielle Silverman

Topics covered

• social psychology
• behaviorism
• child behavior
• co-regulation
• behavioral expectations

Keywords

• social psychology
• behaviorism
• children's behavior
• co-regulation
• behavioral strategies

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