Learning Theories

1. behaviorist

1.1. Skinner

1.1.1. operant conditioning

1.1.1.1. Programmed instrauctions

1.1.1.1.1. 1. knowledge comes in units arranged linearly

1.1.1.1.2. 2. Machines deliver these units

1.1.1.1.3. 3. students complete work at there own pace

1.2. Watson

1.2.1. classical conditioning

1.2.1.1. Unconditioned stimulus =>unconditioned response

1.2.1.2. unconditioned stimulus with conditioned stimulus =>unconditioned response

1.2.1.3. conditioned stimulus => conditioned response

2. Constructivist

2.1. Piaget

2.2. Vygotsky

2.2.1. The learner is in the environment and influences learning the community is also interwoven between the learning and environment

2.3. Idea 3

3. Cognitive teaches people adaptive ways of thinking and acting based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions

3.1. Social cognitive theory

3.1.1. Bandura

3.1.2. Personal factors <----> Environment<------>Behavior

3.2. Cognitive Information Processing

3.2.1. Short term memory

3.3. Meaningful learning theory

3.3.1. Ausubel reference

3.3.1.1. stressed

3.3.1.1.1. Meaningful knowledge

4. Social Approaches

4.1. Distributed Cognition

4.1.1. Knowledge and cognition is distributed across objects, individuals, artefacts, and tools in the environment

4.1.2. Hutchins

4.2. Situated Cognitions

4.2.1. Knowledge is situated being in part a product of the activity context and culture in which it is developed and used

4.2.2. Gibson, Brown, Collins

4.3. Activity Theory

4.3.1. emphasizes the certainty of practice as doing and activity, but also foregrounds setting and context as essential orienting concepts