learning theory
How minds acquire
Learning theory is the study of how people and animals acquire knowledge, skills, and behaviors.
In psychology, major learning theories include behaviorism (learning through conditioning and reinforcement), cognitivism (learning as mental processing), and constructivism (learning by building on existing knowledge).
Her teaching approach draws heavily on learning theory.
The field informs education, training, and therapy.
- situated cognitionThinking inseparable from context
- reinforcementAdding support or encouragement
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
- scaffoldingTemporary exterior work platform
- stimulus-responseInput-output behavioral pattern
cognitive load · schema · spaced repetition · metacognition · modeling · information processing · imitation · self-efficacy · growth mindset · positive reinforcement · neuroplasticity · blank slate · tabula rasa · working memory · psychology · classical conditioning · Skinner · acquisition
- educationeducation, school, schools, teachers, students
- child developmentbaby, toddler, newborn, infancy, milestones
- psychologypsychology, psychologist, therapist, psychiatrist, clinical psychology
- behavioral sciencebehaviorism, conditioning, reinforcement, stimulus, response
- behavioral sciencespsychology, behaviorism, cognitive psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology
- Educational Psychologyeducational psychology, school psychology, cognitive development, Piaget, Erikson
learning theoryinstinct
Innate behavioral tendency
nativism · innateness · reflex · fixed action pattern · genetic determinism
learning theorygenetic determinism
Heredity alone shapes traits
evolutionary psychology · sociobiology · universal grammar · behavioral genetics
learning, learned, theory, learner, learns, theories, theoretical, theorize, theorist