The aim of this article is to provide a concise overview the theoretical assumptions behaviorism, which generally informs “traditional” approaches sport coaching. B.F. Skinner's (1904–1990) theory operant conditioning discussed, alongside considerations for coaching practice. For coaches who draw upon principles conditioning, four reflective questions are posed. This does not attempt present be...

In the middle of the twentieth century, American psychology was dominated by two major schools behaviorism and Freudian psychology. Increasing dissatisfaction with these two orientations as adequate approaches to the human psyche led to the development of humanistic psychology. The main spokesman and most articulate representative of this new field was the wellknown American psychologist Abraha...

A substantial portion ofB. F. Skinner's scholarship was devoted to developing methods and terms for a scientific study of behavior. Three concepts central to scientific accounts—cause, explanation, and theory—are examined to illustrate the distinction between mechanistic and relational frameworks and radical behaviorism's relationship to those frameworks. Informed by a scientific tradition that...

This research aims to describe the types of vocabulary that appear inthe language children aged 4 –5 years old at PAUD Al-Hadidthrough games, singing and telling stories as well viewed frompsycholinguistic behaviorism. uses psycholinguisticbehavior theory. The method used is descriptive with aqualitative form data source this ofchildren 4-5 which are obtained from playing, singingand stories. c...