LAWS OF LEARNING
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 3:24 pm
LEARNING
• Learning without reflection is a waste. Reflection without learning is
dangerous.
• Social
• Self-active
• Purposive
• Creative
• transferable
What is learning?
"Learning without reflection is a waste. Reflection without learning is
dangerous"
• Learning is a process resulting in some modification that is relatively
permanent on how you think, feel or how you do things in life.
• Learning includes education and training.
• Training is the act of preparing on something.
• Learning is social because learning takes place in an environment
with various individuals. Each person in a class is unique
• Learning is self-active. Learners learn through their own activities.
Includes, listening, visualizing, recalling, reasoning, memorizing, using
judgement and thinking.
• Learning is purposive. Learning should have a purpose and/or goal.
It should be meaningful.
• Learning is creative.
• Learning is transferable. What is learned to a single context, it should
be also applicable to other contexts.
• Process model is more student-centered. This process refers to
internal development caused by acquiring new information and
elaborating one's own understanding. Learners have their own
choices.
• Product model is more teacher-centered. This process refers to
meeting the external objective of instruction and choices of the
learners are limited.
David A. Kolb
• is an American psychologist and educational theorist. He is perhaps
best known for his research on experiential learning and learning
styles.
• Learning follows a four stage cycle.
• He believed that learners must go through these four stages to have
an effective learning process.
1. Concrete experience- doing and having an experience. Each learner
is engaged and doing the tasks. Therefore, involving the learner in the
learning process.
2. Reflective observation- What did you learn in that task? Each learner
must look back and reflect on what they did on number 1. Encourage
them to tell their experiences and let them clarify on things they are
not clear with.
3. Abstract conceptualization. Connecting ideas and opinions in the
class. In this stage, the learner concludes of their experience by
reflecting your prior and new knowledge.
MIDTERMS Page 1
THORNDIKE'S LAW ( TATLO ANG ORIGINAL NA LAW OF LEARNIG)
PRIMARY LAW OF LEARNING
1. Law of readiness - eagerness to learn something new
• When someone is ready to perform some act, to do so is satisfying.
• When someone is ready to perform some act, not to do so is annoying.
• When someone is ready to perform some act and is forced to do so, it is
annoying.
1. Law of effect
2. Law of Exercise
• Law of use- Practice makes perfect.
• Law of disuse- Learning weakens if practice is neglected and discontinued.
• Keep practicing para di makalimutan.
YUNG MGA BAGONG NA ADD SA LAW OF LEARNING
Law of Multiple Response
• According to it the organism varies or changes its response till an
appropriate behaviour is hit upon.
Law of Prepotency of Elements
• The ability to deal with the essential or the relevant part of the situation,
makes analytical and insightful learning possible.
Law of Associative Shifting
• According to this law we may get a response, of which a learner is capable,
associated with any other situation to which he is sensitive.
Law of Set/ Attitude
• Learning is guided by a total set or attitude of the organism, which
determines not only what the person will do but what will satisfy or annoy
him.
Law of Response by Analogy
• the individual makes use of old experiences or acquisitions while learning a
new situation.
LAW OF PRIMACY - Things learned first create a strong impression so what is
taught must be right the first time it was shared to the students.
LAW OF RECENCY- Things most recently learned are best remembered.
LAW OF INTENSITY- The more intense the material taught, the more likely it is
learned.
LAW OF FREEDOM- Things freely learned are best learned and the greater the
freedom enjoyed by the students in the class
THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE THEORY ARE-
1. According to this theory, the task can be started from the easier aspect
towards its difficult side.
2. A small child leans some skills through trial and error method only such as
sitting, standing, walking, running etc.
3. In this theory, more emphasis has been laid on motivation.
4. Practice leads a man towards maturity. Practice is the main feature of trial

them to tell their experiences and let them clarify on things they are
not clear with.
3. Abstract conceptualization. Connecting ideas and opinions in the
class. In this stage, the learner concludes of their experience by
reflecting your prior and new knowledge.
4. Active participation- You allow learners to put their knowledge into
practice and show how it is relevant to their lives. Make sure that the
info is relevant for a long time.
• All must be present for the learner to acquire new knowledge.
Dewey
• distinguished between two senses of the word: 'having an experience'
and 'knowing an experience'.
• John Dewey is one of the most influential thinkers in modern learning.
LAW OF LEARNING
• Edward Lee Thorndike (1874-1949)
○ was a professor of American Psychology, a disciple of William
James who developed a series of laws about trial and error
learning.
MIDTERMS Page 2
1. According to this theory, the task can be started from the easier aspect
towards its difficult side.
2. A small child leans some skills through trial and error method only such as
sitting, standing, walking, running etc.
3. In this theory, more emphasis has been laid on motivation.
4. Practice leads a man towards maturity. Practice is the main feature of trial
and error.
5. Habits are formed as a result of repetition.
6. The effects of rewards and punishments also affect the learning of the
child.
7. The theory may be found quite helpful in changing the behavior of
delinquent students.
8. With the help of this theory, the teacher can control the negative emotions
of the children such as anger, jealousy etc.
9. The teacher can improve his teaching methods making use of this theory.