Three Chapters of Learning
Three Chapters of Learning
Burns (1995)
-defined learning as a relatively permanent change in behavior
with behavior imcluding both observable activity and internal
processess such as thingking,attitudes, and emotions
Santrock (2012 p. 217)
-defined learning as a repatively permanent influence on
behavior,knowledge, and thinking skills that comes about
through experience
-goes further to say that it is a long term change in mental
representations or associations as a result of experience.
The definition of learning covers the
following elements
a. It is a long term change(though it does not necessarily last
forever)
b. The change is brought about by experience
c. It does not include changes that are physiological like
maturation, mental illness,fatigue,hunger
d. It involves mental representation or
association,presumably,it has its basis in the brain
Woolfolk(2016)
-asserts that “learning occurs when experience ( including
practice causes a relatively permanent change in an individual
knowledge,behavior or potential for behavior
Ormrod(2015)
-learning is a longterm change in mental representation of
association as a result of experience
Three important elements
a. change in behavior,better or worse
b. change take place through practice or experience
c. Behavior change must be relatively permanent and last for
a fairly long time
Types of Learning
a. Motor Learning
-form of learning for one to maintain and go through daily life
activities
b. Verbal Learning
-involves yhe use of spoken language as will as the
communication devices used
c. Concept Learning
-form of learning which requires the use of higher order of mental
process
d. Discrimination learning
-to differentiate between stimuli and responding appropriately
to these stimuli
e. Learning of principles
-learning principles related to science,mathematics and
grammar
f. Problem Solving
-higher order thinking process
g. Attitude learning
-attitude is a predisposition which determines and predicts
behavior