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I'm never comin' back to school! Never! Billy! I swear, I'm sick. I can't go to school.

Billy developed a negative response towards school after Miss Vaughn gave him a hard time about his cursive and the students laughed at him. Pavlov’s theory of behaviorism is similar to this situation because there was classical conditioning. Billy gained anxiety and fear which makes him not want to go back to school.

[http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=billy-madison] In perfect cursive. Any more brain-busters? Rizzuto.

The teacher, Miss Vaughn challenges Billy with a difficult word to spell in cursive. She provides him with instruction that is outside his comfort level. This is similar to Piaget’s practice by infusing opportunities for disequilibrium into the classroom learning.