Contiguity Theory Implications

1. Active participant: do things actively for conditioning to take place. According to Moore (2006), for the teacher to benefit from this theory the lesson must actively involve the learner.
2. Specific tasks: Instructions should present very specific tasks for proper conditioning to take place. According to Moore (2006), for the teacher to benefit from this theory, the tasks in the lesson needs to be specific.
3. Breaking habits: The notion of recency, the idea that an organism will respond to a stimulus in the same way that it responded on the most recent encounter.
4. On-trial learning: The last response should be correct for one-trial learning to take place. According to Moore (2006), for the teacher to benefit from this theory, the last situation needs to be correct since it will be associated with the task.
5. Varied Stimulus: Different stimulus (examples) is necessary to produce a generalize response.