Neo-behaviorism education is a modern European and American educational trend of thought developed from behavioral psychology, and the representative figure is Skinner of the United States. Put forward the theory of procedural teaching, which is called "the father of teaching machine", and the characteristic of new behaviorism education is mechanism. Mainly includes the following reasons.

(1) Education and teaching is to shape people's behavior.

In education, we can follow the procedure of "stimulus-response-reinforcement" and shape people's behavior at will through training.

② Advocating program teaching.

Neo-behaviorist educators believe that the learning process of all creatures shows very similar attributes. In the field of teaching, we should adopt two methods to control students' behavior: one is to arrange and strengthen association to shape students' behavior; Second, provide reinforcement to keep the behavior at a certain intensity level for a long time. Skinner put forward the basic principles of program teaching: positive response, small steps forward, timely reinforcement and self-determined progress.

③ Let students use teaching machines in their study.

Through the use of teaching machines, students' learning behavior can be strengthened in a timely and sufficient number.

④ Educational research should pay attention to the behavior of teaching and learning.

As the research object, teaching and learning aim to choose effective teaching methods and judge the effect of teaching work.

Neo-behaviorism education not only contributes to the development of learning theory, but also opens the way for the development of computer-aided teaching. However, it has been criticized for ignoring the essential difference between human learning and animal learning, as well as the mechanical rigidity of program teaching and teaching machines. New behaviorism education