Learning Theories

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Learning Theories

• Catherine Mendoza
• June 27, 2008
• Project II

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Cognitive Theories

• Learning is a process of relating new information
  to previously learned.
• Knowledge is organized.
• Individuals are actively involved in
• the learning process

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Behaviorist Theories

• Organisms are born as blank slates.
• Learning is learning is largely the result of
  environment events.
• The most useful theories tend to be parsimonious
  ones

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Vygotsky and his Social Cognition

• Two sorts of childs intellectual are
• First, children acquire the content of their
  thinking, that is, their knowledge.
• Second, the process if their thinking is the
  tools of intellectual adaptation.

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B.F. Skinner and his Behaviorism

• Two different types of conditioning.
• Classic conditioning When a natural reflex
  responds to a stimulus ( animal and people are
  wired).
• Operant conditioning When a response to a
  stimulus is reinforced.
• Skinner used techniques to teach pigeons to dance
  and bowl a ball.

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B.F. Skinnerways of teaching

• Behaviorism is often used by teachers, who reward
  or punish student behavior.
• The learner should be able to put together his
  own response rather than select from
  alternatives.
• The success of such a machine depends on the
  material used in it.

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Vygotsky Impacts Learning

• Curriculum Children learn through interaction
  between learner and learning.
• Instruction Children can perform tasks that they
  are incapable of completing on their own.
• Assessment Children can do on their own is their
  level of development.

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Educational Behaviorist

• Behavior changes can confirm that learning has
  taken place.
• Student learn when they actually have a chance to
  behave.
• Rewards or reinforcement for learning

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Educational Cognitive

• Cognitive processes influence learning.
• Children organize the things they learn.
• People control their own learning.

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Web Sites

• html file//P\EHS\Cognitive Learning Theory
• http//suedstudent.syr.edu/ebarrett/ide621/behavi
  or.htm
• http//www.funderstanding.com/vygotsky.cfm
• http//www.funderstanding.com/behaviorism.cfm