Development of Individualistic Behaviors in the Classroom

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Four behavior patterns exhibited by students in the classroom have been identified by the authors. These behavior patterns are defined as an active learning pattern, a passive learning pattern, a non-participative pattern, and a disruptive pattern. Each behavior pattern is a result of the matching or mismatching of a student’s affective and cognitive skills with the demands of the classroom environment. Each behavior pattern is characterized by three stages-tentative, testing, and patterned-where the student perceives the possibility of reward for a certain behavior, tests whether this reward can be produced on demand, and finally adopts a behavior pattern. The authors believe that shifts in behavior patterns are possible at each stage of development if appropriate changes are made in the classroom environment, but that each stage of each pattern has its own discrete shift and remedy.

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