LEARNING THEORIES
Learning theories are very crucial in a way that they helps by navigating other best ways of learning and teaching.
BEHAVIORISM
Behaviourism is a learning theory of humans and animals that pays much considerable attention only on objectively observable behaviours. Which could simple mean it relies only on observable behaviour as it disregards other activities of the mind. It came to a point whereby behaviour theorists conduct the experiments. These experiments were conducted regarding the identification of Conditioning as a universal learning process. Later on, it was evidently discovered that we 've only two different types of conditioning up to so far. Classic conditioning serves as the first type and its occurrence is due to the response from a central nervous system to a stimulus. The world known example of classic conditioning is Pavlov 's observation that dogs salivate when the eat or even see food. Operant Conditioning serves as the second type and its occurrence is due to a feedback to a stimulus from a natural reflex.
Theory is a formal statement of the rules on which a subject of study is based or of ideas that are suggested to explain a fact or event, or more generally, an opinion or suggestion. So it is not always true to everyone due to
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According to my research, I found that it is said that cognitive theory defines learning as a semi-permanent change in mental processes or associations. Well, it is the cognitive notion of learning. Many of the information processing models of teaching and learning are based on the cognitive view of learning. "Cognitivism focuses on the inner mental activities-opening the "black box" of the human mind is valuable and necessary for understanding how people learn." One of the assumption made by the cognitive psychology was that there are cognitive processes that take place and influence the way things are