LEARNING THEORIES

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Are concepts and propositions that
explain why people learn and
predict what circumstances they will
learn

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Learning Theories

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– Behaviorist Theories
– Cognitive Theories
– Social Learning Theories

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Major Learning Theories

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Earliest formal theories for learning, used
for children
Focused on studying thoughts and
feelings, fears and phobia

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Behaviorist Theories

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Defined behavior as a muscle movement
-began studying behaviour because it is
more objective.

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John Watson

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-Contiguity theory
-Believed that even a skill such as walking
is learned through a series of conditioned
responses.

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Watson and Guthrie

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reinforcement theory
- proposed that stimulus-response bonds
are strengthened by reinforcements such
as reward or punishment.

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.Thorndike and Skinner

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study of how our brains work in the
process of perceiving, thinking,
remembering and learning

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Cognitive Science

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sometimes used to describe a subset of this field of study.
Explains the way that information is handled once it enters the
sensed and how it is organized and stored.

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Information Processing

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active process in which the learner constructs meaning basedon prior knowledge and view of the world

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Learning in cognitive perspective

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Learning is a process whereby the novice becomes expert

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Breur

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An active process which the learner constructs meaning based on prior knowledge and view of the world

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Feden, 1994

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– Developed earliest model of cognitive learning
– The Subsumption Theory of Meaningful Verbal Learning
– New information is subsumed into existing thought and memory
structures
– Meaningful learning is thought to occur only if existing cognitive
structures are organized and differentiated.
– Repetition of meaningful material and its use in various contexts
would enhance the retention of the material

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Ausubel, 1963

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– Concept of schema or schemata
– “ all knowledge is packaged into units. These units are schemata.”

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Rumelhart, 1980

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knowledge structures that store concepts, and the knowledge of how to use them in memory

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Schemata

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Accretion, Tuning (schema evolution), and Restructuring (schema creation)

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3 Kinds of Learning Based on Schema Theory

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– The learning of facts
– New information is added to existing schemata
– No changes are made to existing knowledge

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Accretion

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Existing schema evolve or refined throughout the lifespan as
new situations and issues are encountered

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Tuning (schema evolution)

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Development if new schemata by copying an old schema and adding new elements that are different to create a new
schema

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Restructuring (schema creation)

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Information is processed sequentially, from perception to attention- to labelling and meaning

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Level of Processing Theory

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Information is processed by different parts of the memory system simultaneously rather than sequential

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The Parallel Distributing Model

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The information is stored in any places throughout the brain, forming network of connections

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Connectionistic Model

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– Relates to memory activity
– Information is both processed and stored in 3 stages: Sensory,
Short-Term Memory and Long-Term Memory

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Stage Theory of Information Processing

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Fleeting or passing swiftly

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Sensory Memory

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– Needs interest
– Retain indefinitely if rehearsed or
meaningful to us

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Short-Term Memory

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Use of mnemonic device

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Long-Term Memory

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requisition of knowledge an skills that
changes a person’s behavior

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Behaviorist

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focuses more on the acquisition of
knowledge than on the resulting behavior

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Cognitive theorists

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Domain-Specific Learning

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Feden

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 Sometimes defined as “thinking about one’s thinking
 A process that learners use to gauge or measure their
thinking while reading, studying or problem-solving
 To know what they know and what they do not know
 Journal writing, group dialogue, problem-based learning,
rationalization of test questions

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Metacognition

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 Sensory, short term and long term
 Consolidation
 Chunking: information is clustered into patterns

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Memory

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 Ability to take information learned in one situation and apply it
to another
 Concepts and principles are used or adopted not just to one
particular situation but to all other situations as well
 Successful transfer depends on several factor

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Transfer

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– The extent to which the material was originally learned
– The ability to retrieve information from memory
– The way in which the material was taught and learned
– The similarity of the new situation to original

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Successful transfer depends on several factors

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Albert Bandura (1977)
* Observational Learning Theory

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Social Learning Theories

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Explains that behaviour is the result of an interaction
among the person (characteristics, personality etc.) to
the environment (physical, social etc) and the
behaviour itself.
* People learn as they are in constant interaction with
their environment

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• Observational Learning Theory

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a. Modelling
b. Attentional processes
c. Retention Processes
d. Motivation

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Key components of Observational Learning Theory

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Learning occurs as a result of observing other
people’s behavior and its consequences

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Modelling

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This determines which modelled behavior will be
learned

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Attentional Processes

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Refer to the ability to retain modelled behaviors in
permanent memory

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Retention Processes

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through valued outcomes (rewards)
rather punishing outcomes
– Perceived reward is a good motivator

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Motivation

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1, Signal Learning (conditioned response)
2. Stimulus-Response Learning
3. Chaining
4. Verbal Association
5.Discrimination Learning
6. Concept Learning
7. Rule learning
8. Problem solving

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8 Types of Learning
Gagne’s Conditions of Leaning

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– Simplest level of learning
– Person develops a general diffuse reaction to a
stimulus

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Signal Learning

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Developing a voluntary response to a specific stimulus
or combination of stimuli

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Stimulus-Response Learning

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Acquisition of a series of related conditioned
responses or stimulus-response connections

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Chaining

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– Type of chaining
– Process of learning medical terminology

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Verbal Association

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– Type of chaining
– Process of learning medical terminology

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Verbal Association

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– The more new chains that are learned, the easier it is to forget
previous chains
– To retain large number of chains, you need to discriminate among
them

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Discrimination Learning

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Learning how to classify stimuli into groups represented by a common
concept

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Concept Learning

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Rule: chain of concepts or a relationship between concepts
– Expressed as “If…. And then ..” relationships

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Rule learning

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– Highest level of learning
– Applying previously learned rules that relate to situation
– Process of formulating and testing hypotheses

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Problem solving