1. Behaviourism: learner is passive: Learns via external processess e.g: psotive reinforcement
2. Stages of cognitive development: Childe uses cognitive schemas to make sense of the world. Assimilation and accommadation are key mechanisms of development.
3. Experiential learning theory Knowledge is continuously gained through both personal and environmental experiences. The learner must be able to reflect on the experience, use analytical skills to conceptualize the experience, and make decisions and solve problems to use the ideas gained from the experience.
4. Social Cognitive theory: Social behavior is learned by observing and imitating the behaviour of others. Four mediational processes that help determine whether a new behavior is acquired.
5. Theory of moral development: focuses on how children develop morality and moral reasoning. Moral development occurs in a series of six stages. Moral logic is primarily focused on seeking and maintaining justice
6. Bioecological model of human development: Systematic view of development. human development is a transactional process in which an individual’s development is influenced by his or her interactions with various aspects and spheres of their environment.
7. Socicultural theory: A person's cognitive development is largely influenced by their surrounding culture. development happens through the process of scaffolding; ZPD. cultural/cognitive tools support children's mental abilities
8. Psychoscocial theory of identity development: Development continues throughout the entire life cycle. Each of the 8 stages is marked by a crisis that must be resloved
9. Theory of multiple intelligence: human intelligence can be differentated into 8 modalities.People do no just have an intellectual capacity but have many kinds intelligence. Describes different ways in which learners learn and acquire information
10. Bloom's Taxamony a classification system used to define and distinguish different levels of human cognition—i.e., thinking, learning, and understanding.
11. Theory of human motivation: asserts that we each have a set of basic needs that must be met, including biological and psychological, safety, belongingness and love, self-esteem, and self-actualization.
12. Information processing theory: people process information in steps or stages. Limitations on how much information can be processed at each stage. Previously learned information affects how and what peaople currently learn. the human information processing system is interactive
