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FACILITATION AND EDUCATIONAL SKILLS
Learning can be established as a permanent change in the mental or emotional
functioning, processing and emotional functioning and the behavior as a outcome of
experiences. This can be said is a dynamic process where the individuals acquire new
thoughts, attitudes, actions and feelings. The purpose of this essay is to portray the challenges
that can be faced while teaching or learning in a clinical environment. In this essay
behaviorist theory is chosen as a learning theory and it has been discussed how well this
theory can facilitate learning procedure and can promote a positive workplace culture.
Behaviorist learning theory focuses primarily on what can be directly observed and
the behaviorists see learning as a product of stimulus conditions(s) and the responses(r)
which can be at times termed as SR model. This learning process following this theory can
become very easy for the learners. Behaviorists does not care about what is going inside the
mind of the learners, rather, they focus on the responses of them and they try to manipulate
the environment to bring in the desired change (Riekert, Ockene and Pbert 2013). Recently,
in education and clinical psychology behaviorist theories are being widely used. To modify
the attitudes and responses of the individuals behaviorists alter the stimulus conditions
present in the environment, or in some cases, they try to change the situation after getting the
responses from the individuals. As an example gathered from a healthcare research, it can be
said that certain respondent conditioning concepts can be useful in healthcare environment.
Stimulus generalization can be said is the tendency of primary learning experiences which are
to be applied to some other same type of stimuli. For an example, it can be said that, while
listening to friends describing a hospital experience it becomes apparent that it would either
positive or negatively affect a patient’s evaluation of their own hospital stays or their feelings
about getting hospitalized again in coming days (LoBiondo-Wood et al. 2013). With
experience people learn to differentiate and identify ways to amend their behaviors in the
clinical environment. The key is to observe carefully the responses of the individuals to some

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