Persevere : Don't give up

Law of learning

Edward Thorndike - one of the pioneers

of educational phsychyology

He became famous for formulating the

three laws of learning in the early
20th century

1 law of readiness
2 law of exercise
3 law of effect

Law of readiness aka law of action tendency

- the primary law of learning
- this law suggests that learning
takes place when an action tendency is
aroused through preparatory adjustment,
set, or attitude

Law of exercise - the law of use and disuse

- suggests that drill or practice helps in
increasing effficiency and durability of
learning
- practice makes perfect

law of effect
-states that those behavioral responses that
were most closely followed by a satisfying
result were most likely to become
established patterns and to occur again in
response

hypotheses
if the response to the stimulus satisfies
the subject
- it is learned and selected, while those
responses that are not satisfying are
eliminated

in the context of education

- would have us bhelieve that 'teaching"
must be satisfying or pleasing

- the educator must see to it that his

students are pleased or atleast satisfied of
what are being fed to them