Piaget’s learning theory is based on stages that children go through in order to learn. In each stage, the learning process is different and a little more complex. Piaget believed that children should play, experiment and reason in order to learn. He believed that humans couldn’t be given information that they immediately understand. Humans have ...
Developed by Canadian sociologist Albert Bandura in the 1950’s as a way of explaining how people learn about their world, the social learning theory ( later renamed the social cognitive theory) is conceivably the most instrumental theory of learning and development. Although this theory finds it origins in many of the basic ideas of traditional ...
Most Americans will agree that proper diet and exercise is good, smoking is bad, and flossing daily keeps teeth healthy. However, at least one of every two Americans is overweight, approximately 25.7 percent of men and 21 percent of women in the US are smokers, and over 150 million Americans suffer from some form of ...
Teaching is a profession that can yield something amazing when the right ideas and beliefs are implemented in the classroom. I hold many ideas and beliefs about teaching. I have held some of these beliefs for a very long time, while others have come about as a result of the educational experiences I have had ...
“To agree or not to agree?” That is the question. Reviewing the four basic theories located in the Child Development textbook, appear to be quite different. Though I agree to all four theories, only two I can speak from life experiences that are proven to me to be valid. The two theories I strongly feel ...
Many learning theories have been developed throughout the years that attempt to explain how people modify their behavior based on experiences. Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism are the three main categories of learning theories. Behaviorism focuses on the learning of observable behaviors or responses and considers learning to be a change in behavior rather than a ...
What are the psychological and biological factors that set the pathway for learning? The topic of learning has fascinated psychologists since the dawn of the profession. There have been many debates in the early years of psychology about whether or not we learn due to a biological function, such as instincts, or we are empty ...
The Chicago School of criminological theory aimed to move past the simple hard-line classical explanations of crime. Early theories of criminal behavior focused on the individual, touting such ideas as crime as a rational choice, born criminals, and physical features such as forehead size as predictors of crime. The Chicago School introduced the idea of ...
