HUMAN LEARNING

1. This memorization is known to improve with repetition

2. LONG TERM MEMORY

3. Is a model of how the human mind works based on the architecture of a computer

4. AUTHORS OF THE MOST KNOWN THEORIES ABOUT HUMAN LEARNING

5. Information Processing Theory

6. The information is “processed”: it is made conscious and understood. In this type of memory there is space for limited information

7. WORKING MEMORY

8. This means genetics would not impose learning limitations and its rate of progression, but other factors as poverty or wealth in social and linguistic interaction would fasten or make slower their cognitive progress.

8.1. The greatest contribution of this author is the Zone of Proximal Development.

9. Promotes a causality completely opposite to Piaget's one by stating that children's cognitive development is based in social interaction.

10. In each stage there are specific contents to be taught that teachers must kwnow in order to understand what children should learn in a specific moment and what not.

11. Proposes three phases in the way of learning of children: enactive, iconic and symbolic. He believes that content can always be taught if is adapted. In his learning model the contents are retaken at different times with progressive depth. He also gives so much importance to learning by discovery, as an alternative to learning by repetition.

12. He proposed the theory of meaningful learning.Is realy important the previous knowledge of the students because it helps them to learn new contents wih much more ease by linking new with old content.

13. He studied the development of mental capacities in humans and based his study on the idea that the key to cognitive development is the development of the logical functions of the mind

14. He postulated a total of 4 different evolutionary stages based on the age with different characteristics.

15. His main contribution was his operant conditioning model. He maintained that the use of reinforcement produces an increase on the probability of repetition of a preferred behavior or attitude

16. VYGOTSKY

17. AUSUBEL

18. SKINNER

19. PIAGET

20. BRUNER

21. It is a permanent change in the mind's structure and includes aspects such as habits, memorization, reasoning or comprehension. You can learn to ride a bike, how to manage your emotions or how to express yourself in public and so on.