The following is a description of Week 3 (Home) of the Learning Theories module.
Description
This week I further researched the two major learning theories: Behaviourism and Cognitivism. This involved looking at the work of the following psychologists/authors:
Behaviourism (psychologists):
(1) Edward Thorndike (1874 – 1949)…..associated with classical conditioning
(2) John Watson (1878 – 1958)…..associated with the origins of behaviourism
(3) B.F. Skinner (1904 – 1990)…..associated with operant conditioning
(4) Albert Bandura (1925 – Present)…..associated with observational learning.
Cognitivism:
My reading took in perception, pattern recognition (Gestalt theorists)
proximity, similarity, continuity, closure as well as the information processing model of memory based on the work of Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968.