Situated learning theoryargues that learning happens best when students are learning within authentic contexts. According to this theory, learners should not learn in classrooms, but rather in workplace or real-life environments where the new information being learned has practical applications. According...
Piagetis an interesting character in Psychology. His theory of learning differs from many others in some important ways: First, he focuses exclusively on children; Second, he talks aboutdevelopment(notlearningper se) and Third, it’s a stage theory, not a linear progression theory. OK, so wha...
the core assumption of “terror management theory.” It presume that, when confronted with reminders of our mortality, we display self-protective emotional and cognitive responses. Made think about dying, we self-defensively cling tightly to our worldviews and prejudices. On theassumption that...
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Roger’s theory of learning evolved as part of the humanistic education movement (e.g., Patterson, 1973; Valett, 1977).Scope/Application:Roger’s theory of learning originates from his views about psychotherapy and humanistic approach to psychology. It applies primarily to adult learners and has...
Statistical learning theory represents another paradigm which assumes there is an unknown objective probability distribution that characterizes the data and the new cases about which inferences are to be made, the goal being to do as well as possible in characterizing the new cases in terms of that...
❖PSYCHOLOGY-BASEDLEARNINGTHEORY ▪The20thcenturydebateonhowpeoplelearnhasfocusedlargelyonbehavioristvs.cognitivepsychology.▪Keyquestionasked,•“Isthehumansimplyaveryadvancedmammalthatoperatesbyastimulusresponsemechanism,oractuallyacognitivecreaturethatusesitsbraintoconstructknowledgefromtheinformationreceivedbythe...
Learning theory must provide knowledge in the field, analyze and explore learning methods and means; it must make it clear which aspects of learning are the most worth learning, which independent variables should be controlled, which dependent variables should be analyzed, which methods and ...
Constructivism is a theory to explain how knowledge is constructed in the human being when information comes into contact with existing knowledge that had been developed by experiences. It has its roots in cognitive psychology and biology and an approach to education that lays emphasis on the ways...
There are three main types of meaningful learning, as proposed by David Ausubel’s meaningful learning theory: 1. Representation Learning This type involves the acquisition of new concepts and ideas by associating them with existing cognitive structures and old knowledge. ...