Ch 3 Learning Theories Flashcards
What is learning?
The process and mental structures by which people accumulate experiences and make them into new meanings.
What 4 learning theories apply most to speech pathology?
Behaviorism
Cognitive
Humanistic/experiential
Social Orientation
Behaviorism is
Overt behaviors that can be observed and measured (and manipulated) Doesn’t really consider thought, maturity or development.
Who is the father of classical conditioning ? When would you see this in speech therapy?
Ivan Pavlov
– stimulus-response. Where a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a conditioned response.
When would you see this in speech therapy?
Prompting
Reinforcement
John B. Watson: believed that practice strengthened learning. Give me an example of how we use this concept to structure our sessions?
Articulation
Voice and fluency
These overt behaviors is what is going to affect your change in your mental structure and knowledge
Who is the father of operant conditioning? Give some examples from speech therapy
Every action is driven by reward – no thinking involved.
Individual “behaves” in a certain way, receives a reward, and establishes a bond between the two.
Examples from speech therapy.
Reinforcement schedule—you praise any response
What do we need to know about Behaviorists- ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis)…
How is it different from Speech tx
- This is helpful, but the learning doesn’t have a high learning curve!
- They cannot generalize specific tasks)
- They must learn how to learn
Different:
=We manipulate behavior to get learning then we can make progress with speech and language
Therapy techniques which appeal to the behaviorist learning theory
Prompting
Cueing
Reinforcements
Task analysis
What is Cognitive Learning Theory
Involving the acquisition or reorganization of the cognitive structures through which humans process and store information. The maturity and development of the brain was learning.
What are Jean Piaget – stages of development.
Sensorimotor: 0-2 years
Preoperational: 2-7 years
Concrete Operations: 7-12
Formal Operations: begins around age 12
Explain Sensorimotor period
0-2 years
Consisting of motor reflexes in beginning phases (birth to 1 year).
Children learn through touch and movement ( 1 to 2 years).
Action stage: bite, cry, fall down, flail arms, hit, kick, etc.
Why would the Sensorimotor period be important to us?
Movement, learning and brain development all go together
The better connection between right and left side of the brain you will be more efficient connecting language and emotions together
This would be important because children may start putting things in their mouth in order to learn about their world, so don’t punish for rudimentary actions
What is the Preoperational period?
Ages 2 through 7 years of age.
Acquisition of representational skills (symbols) in areas of language, mental imagery, and drawing.
The greatest increase is in the area of language.
Figurative play: banana as a phone, etc.
Language is symbolic, right!!
At four years old we will know 75% of the vocabulary we know
What is the Concrete Operational Period?
7 years through 12 years of age.
Children learn quantity and time.
Child can now better judge container volume. Theory of conservation.
Begins taking points of view of others, humor, and transition into adult-like thought of adults.
In concrete operational period there is a higher level and more abstract thinking thought. Coming out of oneself. what kind of perspective taking have they developed?
Theory of mind—Children with Autism do not have the separation between themselves and the other person; SO if you are looking at a 5 year old they’re not cognitively ready to do this
“We share, we trust, we negotiate”