EDS300H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter article note: Albert Bandura, John Dewey, Jean Piaget
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Thorndike says the decreasing amount of time that it takes someone to do something is learning. Example of cat in a box with a lever. Ivan pavlov classical condition- dogs with bells and food experiment. Watson and ranor baby albert goal was to make him afraid of bunnies. B. f. skinner with the rats believed humans started out as a blank slate and were trained. You can see learning in the way people behave. Given the right environmental influences, all learners acquire identical understanding and that all students can learn. Skinner could not figure out why kids learn language. Jean piaget children and adults learn differently. Learning is not necessarily recognizable by behaviour. You can learn something but sometimes it doesn"t change your behaviour. Lev vygosky learning is cultural and social. Learning prompts development (zone of proximal development) You have to be ready to learn. Experiment was happening when tv"s were moving into the home.
