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Learning Theories

How Learning Occurs

Theory

Characteristics

Theorist

Role of Memory

Types of Learning

Types of Learning

Actions based on memory of reinforcement.
Learning is a change in the learners behavior beased on reinforcement.
Learning through positive and negative reinforcement. The learner is passive (Gould, 2021, pg. 1).
Classical Conditioning Operant Conditioning Observational Learning (Behaviorism, 2018, pg. 1).
Thorndike, Watson, and Skinner (Gould, 2021, pg. 1).

Behaviorism

Change in a learners plan, thinking, and strategizing (Ornstein, 2016, pg. 104).
Short term and long term memory (Ornsein, 2016, pg. 104)
Piaget and Gagne (Ornstein, 2016, pg. 104).
Active participation

Cognitivism

Explicit and implicit
New infromation is linked to prior knowledge and builds (Constructivism, 2018, pg. 1).
Learning takes in information to create their own understanding (Constructivism, 2018, pg. 1).
Taking in knowledge actively (Constructivism, 2018, pg. 1).
Piaget and Vigotsky (Constructivism, 2018, pg. 1).
Congitive, social, and radical (Constructivism, 2018, pg. 1).

Constructivism

References:
Behaviorism. (2018). Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.
Constructivism. (2018). Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.
Gould, M. (2021). Learning Process. Salem Press Encyclopedia.
Ornstein, A. C., & Hunkins, F. P. (2016). Curriculum (7th ed.). Pearson
Education.