Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Reflection Paper - Theories of Learning



Leonardo Z. Camboja Jr.                                           Facilitating Learning
BEE – 2                                                                   Olga C. Alonsabe Ph.D.
September 2, 2012

Reflection Paper

Albert Bandura – Social Learning Theory
According Jean Piaget those children developed his cognitive. Sensory development and pre-operational stages were the children start imitating what he observed and seen from adults. These critical stages of the children parent should be aware of this stage. The child is exposed to the community to adapt more learning so that they can interact their surrounding but need guidance from adults especially the mothers. Social learning theory can be considered a bridge or transmission between behaviours. His theory implies the teaching methods in a classroom setting. Students should be guided properly because this period might harm conditions of the students. Sometimes our technologies are easy to operate; examples: child can now on/off the TV or radio these kinds of behaviours of the child they learn it from their observation. Based on the article story it clearly emphasized that parents should know the actions of their children in order to away from harmful situations.

Wolfgang Kohler – Insight Learning
He developed the idea of insight learning that reinforce of thinking to create new learning acquisition. This referred to his behaviour as insight of our observation particularly the characteristics of the objects. Learning needs coordination of acquiring knowledge to enhance the basic study of the children which start at home. Our perspective should meet the needs of the learners involved study habit in order to understand fully their discovery learning.
According to Wolfgang Kohler which he experiment the Chimpanzee’s behaviour on how to develop the situation and resolve the difficult tasks which measures the intelligent sides of the apes. If we transfer the learning to the human it discovers the critical level of thinking of human being comparing to the animals.

Kurt Lewin – Life space
          This theory refers to perception of learning that expounded on Gestalt psychology principles. His theory on ‘life space adhered’, an individual has inner and outer forces that effect his perceptions and his learning. Inner forces include his own motivation, attitudes and feelings. Outer forces may include the attitude and behaviour of the teacher and classmates. Knowledge is conceived as a continous organization and arrangement of information according to the needs, purposes and meanings.
          I realized that all the theories presented by the well known psychologies about learning processes deeper comprehension on how we apply its principles in actual process. Learning acquired through imitating and adapting knowledge from any different lesson. Social theory is interesting and applicable in day to day learning because implies the social interaction of the child in acquiring knowledge from different levels. 
          In my own application, I will use these theories enhancing the knowledge of my pupils. The imitated behaviour leads to produce satisfying results. Reinforcement and punishment influence the extent to which an individual exhibits a behaviour that has been learned.



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