Oral Chapter 1 Flashcards
Ornstein
Defines learning as a reflective process whereby the learner either develops new insights and understanding or restructures his or her mental processes
Lardizabal
Opines that “learning is an integrated, on going process occurring within the individual, enabling him to meet specific aims, fulfill his needs and interests and cope with thé learning process.
Slavin
Defines learners as a change in an individual cause by experience.
Calderon
Defines learning as thé acquisition through maturation and experience of a new and more knowledge, skills, attitudes that will enable the learner to make better and more adequate reactions , responses and adjustments to new situations.
Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning Theory
Principles of Classical Theory
Stimulus Generalization
Discrimination
Extinction
Stimulus Generalization
Refers to the process by which the conditioned response transfer to other stimuli that are similar to the original conditioned stimulus
Discrimination
refers to the process by which we learn not to respond to similar stimuli in an identical manner.
Extinction
refers to the process by which conditioned responses are lost.
THORNDIKE’S S-R THEORY
Thorndike was one of the first pioneers of active learning, a theory that proposes letting children learn themselves, rather than receiving instruction from teachers.
3 Laws of Learning formulated by Thorndike:
Law of effect
Law of Readiness
Law of Exercise
Law of effect
states that if an act is followed by a satisfying change in the environment, the likelihood that the act will be repeated in similar situations increases.
Law of Readiness
States that when an organism, both human and animal, is ready to form connections to do so is satisfying and not to do so is annoying.
Law of Exercise
States that any connection is strengthened in proportion to the number of times it occurs and in proportion to the average vigor and duration of the connection.
B.F. Skinner Operant Conditioning Theory
Like Thorndike, Skinner’s work focused on the relation between behavior and its consequences.
The use of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to change behavior is often referred to
Operant Conditioning
any behavioral consequence that strengthens a behavior
Reinforcement
are events that are presented after a response has been performed and that increase the behavior or activity they follow.
Positive reinforces
are escapes from unpleasant situations or ways of preventing something unpleasant from occurring.
Negative Reinforces
those that satisfy basic human needs
Primary reinforces
those that acquire reinforcing power because they have been associated with primary reinforcers.
Secondary Reinforces
4 Phases of Social Learning Theory
- Attention
- Retention
- Motor Reproduction processes
- Motivation processes
To learn anything, you need to be paying attention.
Any kind of distraction can make it difficult for you to remember what you are learning.
Attention
You must be able to store (or retain) the information you have learned in your brain. Many factors (like age and health) can impact memory retention.
Retention
You must mimic (or reproduce) the behavior you have learned from a model. The more you mimic the learned behavior, the longer you will retain it in your memory.
Reproduction
You have to be motivated to mimic a behavior, or else you will stop practicing it, and eventually forget it.
Motivation
Concerned with the things that happen inside our heads as we learn
• Emphasizes how information is processed
COGNITIVE THEORIES OF
LEARNING