Learning THEORIST Flashcards
He developed the Theory on Operant
Conditioning, a method of providing learners with behavior prompts and rewarding desired actions.
B.F Skinner
His programmed learning involved chunking down segments of content with embedded feedback, establishing clearly defined learning objectives, cutting back on irrelevant stimuli to reduce cognitive load, and allowing learners to process and sequentially build knowledge within a ‘hierarchy of content’.
B.F Skinner
He proposed a taxonomy that ranked different modes of learning according to thinking skills.
The taxonomy is represented as a hierarchy of skills arranged from lower to highest order cognitive skills.
Benjamin Bloom
Within the three (cognitive, psychomotor, affective learning domains), learning goals are ranked in order of complexity from comprehension to evaluation.
Benjamin Bloom
According to him, teacher-centered environments (traditional classroom
environments where the learner is dependent on a teacher’s instruction) pose threats to selfhood and compromise learning, where ‘students become passive, apathetic and bored.’
Carl Rogers
Father of Humanistic Psychology
Carl Rogers
He argues that students should take directing roles in their own learning, while teachers/instructors take facilitating roles.
Carl Rogers
He developed the Learning Style Inventory.
David Kolb
He outlined two dimensions of learning that represent the two hemispheres of the brain: perception and processing.
DAVID KOLB
He pioneered what we understand to be Sensory Stimulation Theory.
DUGAN LAIRD
He posits that learning occurs when the five senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste are activated.
Dugan Laird
He demonstrated the potential impact of social experiences across a lifetime, and their power to shape our identity.
Erik Erikson
He maintains that it is nurture rather than nature that truly shapes who we are
Erik Erikson
He outlined eight maturation stages from birth to death, not only focusing on cognitive potential, but also ego identity formation, emotional development, value development, and the impact of social environments.
Erik Erikson
He challenged traditional definitions of intelligence and revolutionized the way educators thought about individualizing learning.
Howard Gardner
He developed the ‘Frames of Mind’ model on Multiple Intelligences.
Howard Gardner
He maintained that every learner had a unique blend of intelligences rather than pigeon-holing learners into single categories.
Howard Gardner
He is famous for his developmental learning theory that outlines the four stages of cognitive development.
Jean Piaget
He theorized that learners process information by assimilating new knowledge into existing schemas
Jean Piaget
He claimed that knowledge acquisition could take place independently with the correct support structures in place.
Jerome Bruner
While students may initially rely on a high degree of support to reach their ZDP, he proposes that these support structures are gradually removed over time (similar to temporary construction scaffolding), in order to foster greater independence in learners.
Jerome Bruner
He proposed the Framework for Assertive Discipline. He asserts that discipline is based on a foundation of trusting teacher-student relationships and clear communication.
Lee Canter
Teachers should actively engage students in the formation of behavior guidelines in the classroom (in terms of rules, rewards and consequences. It is also important to discuss the underlying reasons for such expectations, which tie back to protecting all students’ rights to learn and a teacher’s ability to teach.
Lee Canter
According to him, in order to maximize knowledge acquisition, educators should pitch content according to the learners’ Zone of Proximal Development.
Lev Vygotsky
He argued that it is only by providing support that independent learning can be fostered.
Lev Vygotsky
His Social Constructivist Theory defines learning as not just a process of constructing new knowledge on a foundation of pre-existing understandings, but as a process that takes place through social interactions
Lev Vygotsky
He expanded upon Blooms’s three learning domains to include: intellectual skills, cognitive strategy, verbal information, motor skills, and attitude.
Robert Gagne
He proposed the four reasons why a child might misbehave include seeking attention, exercising control, exacting revenge, or displaying feelings of inadequacy.
Rudolf Dreikurs
He provided needs-based explanations for student behaviors, with the underlying tenet that all behaviors are driven by an intrinsic desire to belong.
Rudolf Dreakurs
His theories on ‘democratic discipline’ particularly influenced the positive discipline movement.
Rudolf Dreikurs
