THEORIES OF LEARNING

Learning:

According to Wakefield (1996:364) “learning implies the permanent change of

behavior of an individual after his or her experience”. Sometimes the prior
knowledge can help an individual to use it as a tool to solve problems which he
wants encountered in the past and we can say he learn better from his previous
experience.

Knowledge:

The definition of knowledge will depend on the person who is making a research
about something because everybody is having an inborn knowledge about
something but this needs to be shaped into a better results. According to Bruning
etc. they make a distinction between three types of knowledge i.e.
Declarative(Factual ), Procedural(skills of doing things ) and Metacognitive
(awareness of how we think) knowledge.

Teaching:

This is the helping of a human being to use his cognitive skills to solve problems
after he acquire factual and knowledge after the Teacher help him to acquire them.
For teaching to take place effectively the Teacher must consider the following three
things, i.e. planning , interaction and assessment.

Student no: 200832741 Assignment 1

Theories of learning
 THEEORIES OF
LEARNING

CON
BEHAVOURIST COGNITIVIST

Knowl
Knowledge as given and absolute
Thorndike Watson Skinner

Basi
Stimulus Classical conditioning
Operant behaviour Piaget ( Developmental Stages) Mea
Who
Appl
Soci
Response Behaviour
Classical conditioning (Reward) The sensorimotor stage

Habit
Reward Vygotsk
The preoperational stage

Criticism of Behaviourism Culture

The concrete operational stage

Social int
ot account for all types leaning, Not explain some form of learning
Formal operational stage
Assimilated
Equilibrium Zone of proxima
Gestalt Theory Köhler Wertheimer Disequilibrium
accommodate

Proximity Closure Insight

Overall structure of the problem

Similarity Simplicity

Student no: 200832741 Assignment 1

Theories of learning