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1. Choose a topic from your field of specialization.

2. Think of at least ten learning activities relevant to the topic you picked.
3. Indicate the thinking/learning styles and multiple intelligences that each leaning activity can address. Remember,
a learning activity may address both thinking/ learning style and multiple intelligence.

Topic Learning Activity Learning Style/Multiple Intelligence

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Revise the following sentences to adhere to the people-first language and the other guidelines given in this module.

1. The teacher thought of many strategies to teach the mentally challenged.

2. Their brother is mentally retarded.

3. Their organization is for the autistic.

4. He is a polio victim who currently suffers from post-polio syndrome.

5. There was a blind in my psychology class.

6. I attended a seminar about learning disabled children.

7. That classroom was designed for the deaf and blind.

8. I like to read books about the handicapped.

9. When she was suffering from a spinal cord injury, in a car accident, she became a paraplegic and was
confined to a wheelchair.

10. He is behaving like that because he is abnormal.

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I. Observation

a. Choose a place where you can observe adult-child interactions – such as mall, in church, at the playground,
etc. Spend one hour observing such adult-child interactions. Focus your attention on the stimulus-response-

Consequence patterns you observe.

b. Describe the consequences you observe. (It is better to write or scribble the details on the spot or as soon as you
finish your observation).

c. Answer these questions.

1. What kinds of stimuli for children’s and adult behavior did you observe?

2. What kinds of behaviors on the part of children elicit reinforcement and punishment consequences from
the adult?

3. What kinds of behaviors of the adults are reinforced or punished by the children?

4. What kinds of reinforcements and punishments seem to be the most “successful”?

5. Given this experience, what are your thoughts about operant conditioning? Do you think children
reinforce and punish adults as adults reinforce and punish them? How might the two be interdependent?
2. Thorndike’s Connectionism

a. Choose a topic you want to teach.

B. Think of ways you can apply the three primary laws while you teach the topic.

Topic Grade/year level

Primary Law How I would apply the Primary Law

Law of Readiness

Law of Effect Indicate specifically how you

will use positive/negative reinforcements
(rewards)

Law of Exercise