LEARNING THEORIES CHART

Role of the
Learning theories Main authors Important facts Basic Assumptions Strengths Role of the student Strategies/activities
teacher
-Behaviorism is Drill work
-provides clear predictions.
primarily
One who teaches A passive recipient
Works best for things concerned with Repetitive practice
-Emphasizes objective of planned
- John Watson like foreign language observable
measurement Plans instruction.
- Ivan Petrovich Pavlov vocabulary, facts and behavior, as Bonus points
- Edward Thorndike figures, basic science. opposed to
-Identified comparisons Present language A positive learner
Behaviorism - Bf skinner internal events Participation points
between animals [ CITATION items and
like thinking and
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emotion Verbal reinforcement
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Gives correct A team member
-Behavior is the Establishing rules
language forms.
result of stimulus-
response
 It has always employed
-It is a pure
highly controlled and
science, based An active processor
rigorous methods of study Reread
mainly on of learning
- Jean Piaget Explain how human in order to enable
laboratory One who creates
mind’s work while researchers to infer Analyzing and reasoning
experiments. opportunities for One whose internal
- Lev Vygotsky they learning. cognitive processes at work.
learning to occur data processing
Translating
Cognitivism -Mediational with the help of mechanism operate
The thought process It Is probably the most
processes occur the learner’s data
matter as much as if dominant approach in Paraphrasing
between stimulus processing
not more than the psychology and it has been
and response. mechanism
content presented. applied to a wide range of Summarizing
practical and theoretical
Based on menta
contexts. Highlighting/underlining
process.

It’s active.
All knowledge is
Students must come
constructed and The teacher
It promotes student agency. to their own
all learning is a should guide the
conclusions while Experiments
process of that students by asking
It develops advanced skills learning by being
construction questions
Concerned more with such as critical thinking, challenged by the Research project
- John Dewey
the interpretation of analysis, evaluation, and teacher
- Jerome Bruner Knowledge is Teachers are
Constructivism external stimuli than creation. Field trips
- Jean Piaget content facilitators who
the stimuli and Students must
- Lev Vygotsky dependent so it is aid the students in
outputs themselves It promotes diverse cooperatively work Films
important to their own
viewpoints. with peers on group
situate learning in understanding
It encourages students to assignments with Class discussions
an authentic,
reflect, evaluate their work, and without
relevant and
and identify intermediary technology
realistic contexts.
skills to acquire based on
 their needs.

Humanism -