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Which of the following statements are true?

1.The behaviourist approach holds that learning is teacher centred, the teacher being the sole authority figure who leads the lesson.

2.The theory of behaviourism in the classroom setting came from the pedagogical research of Thorndike.

3.In the behaviourist approach one can expect a mixture of lecturing, modelling and demonstration, rote learning and choral repetition.

4.The process of imbibing one's own culture into one's personality is called enculturation.

A1, 2, 3 and 4 ✓ Correct

B3 and 4

C2 and 4

D1, 2 and 3

Correct answer: (A) 1, 2, 3 and 4

Explanation

All four statements are true: behaviourist learning is teacher centred, it grew from Thorndike's research, it uses lecturing and rote drill, and enculturation is absorbing one's own culture.

Statement 1 is true because behaviourism makes the teacher the sole authority who directs the lesson and controls stimuli and responses.

Statement 2 is true since Edward Thorndike's connectionism and laws of learning gave classroom behaviourism its research base.

Statement 3 is true as behaviourist classrooms rely on lecturing, modelling, demonstration, rote learning and choral repetition.

Statement 4 is true because enculturation is the process of imbibing one's own culture into one's personality.

Thorndike's law of effect anticipated Skinner's reinforcement, while absorbing a second, foreign culture is called acculturation.

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