LEARNING THEORIES RELATED TO

HEALTHCARE PRACTICE
NCM 102 - COMPILATION

RHODORA ALDEA PIMLOTT, RN, DipHE/Bsc, MPA

VICTORIA, John Victor G.

BSN 1-A
LEARNING THEORIES RELATED TO HEALTHCARE PRACTICE

LEARNING Operant Conditioning

Instrumental conditioning method of

A relatively permanent change in mental
learning that employs rewards and punishment for
processing, emotional functioning, and behavior
behavior.
because of experience.

LEARNING THEORY
A coherent framework of integrated
construct and principles that describe, explain, or
predict how people learn.

An organized set of principles explaining

how individuals acquire, retain, and recall knowledge.

BEHAVIORIST/BEHAVIORISM
>>> THEORISTS

Believe that knowledge exists independently COGNITIVE/COGNITIVISM

and outside of people. They view the learner as a
blank slate who must be provided the experience. Cognition

>>> PAVLOV & WATSON Brain functions and mental processes on

understanding, acquisition, and processing
Learning occurs when new behaviors or knowledge, or more loosely thought processes.
changes in behaviors are acquired through Grew in response to behaviorism.
association between stimuli and response thus, Cognitive
stimulus response
association leads to a change in behavior. process

Classical Conditioning Humans process the information they receive, rather than
merely responding to stimuli (ex. thinking about what is
Learning to associate an automatic happening).

behavior or feeling with a stimulus.

LEARNING THEORIES RELATED TO HEALTHCARE PRACTICE

SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY

>>ALBERT BANDURA (1977)

People learn behavior from their

environment through observation, imitation, and
modeling.

Derived from the infamous quote, “What

monkey see, monkey do.”