Theoretical Perspectives
by Lakisha Loper
1. Pargamic
2. Skinner as had some shared beliefs
3. INTERACTIONIST
4. A major theorist is Jerome Bruner and Lev Vygotsky.
5. COGNITIE THEORY
6. Learning happens in stages
7. The foremost cognitive thinker was Jean Piaget.
8. Born into it
9. NATIVIST THEORY
10. Nature vs. Nurture
11. Genetics
12. Interactionist theory is less tangible than say, role theory, because it involves internal mental models as opposed to external social models. Meaning-making occurs when the individual associates objects and actions with meaning for themselves.
13. Cognitive theory is concerned with the development of a person's thought processes. It also looks at how these thought processes influence how we understand and interact with the world.
14. Chomsky has done many reseach on this and has the greatest influence on this theory.
15. Nativist theory is where it is believed that we have an inborn ability to learn and learning is in our genetics. Therefore who we are today is because we're born like that because of our biologiocal history
16. BEHAVIORIST
17. Enviornment
18. Learned Behavior
19. Unconscious mind
20. Synatex
21. Two men most associated with the Behaviorist theory are B. F. Skinner and Dr. Watson
22. Behaviorist in particular believes that cultural and sub-cultural conditioning molds and shapes behavior and subsequently the personality. The unconscious is of little concern to the behaviorist.
