KINDS OF LEARNING

• Habituation


  -       simplest kind of learning

  -       a phenomenon whereby “we get used” to something

  -       meaning that we know and we get used to what it is
• Associative Learning


  -       next level of learning

  -       we form new association between a stimulus and a response (S-R Theory
• Social/Modelling Learning


  -       Albert Bandura, most prominent social learning theorist in the United States

  -       has engaged in many experiments involving learning by observing which is otherwise known as vicarious learning or modelling, because a model is being imitated
• Skill Learning


  -       skill, refers to the proficiency and competency in a certain kind of performance

  -       forms of skills are verbal, reading, and writing

  -       others are mechanical and athletic

  -       a well-integrated sequence of perceptual motor activities is involved in all of these

  -       three stages in learning a skill are cognition, fixation, and automation
• Verbal Learning


  -       this kind of learning is distinctly human

  -       involves the use of words, either as stimuli or responses

  -       some forms of linguistic abilities like speaking, reading, writing, and reciting are involved in verbal learning
• Cognitive Learning


  -       a process that we cannot observe and see is taking place

  -       involves cognitive learning like perceiving of current happenings, recalling previous experiences, thinking, reasoning, evaluating, and abstracting

  -       all mental processes are categorized here (e.g. problem solving, sign learning and concept learning)