NUR1 428 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cognitive Revolution, Weight Watchers, Information Processing Theory
23 Jan 2018
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Lecture 2: introduction to learning theory & learning styles. *learning objective: discriminate among the different learning and health behavior change theories to guide learning and health education and demonstrate an ability to apply these to different learning situations. In health education there are two types of theories: Use of theories to guide the health education process reflects an evidence based approach, moving beyond intuition. Learning theory offers a toolbox of approaches that nurses as educators can use to enhance learning and change in clients. Learning theories can be applied the individual, group, and community level: behaviorism (i) overview, behaviorism is a learning theory that focuses on tangible, objectively observable or measurable behaviors. Internal processes (e. g. , thoughts, motives, and emotions) are unimportant in understanding learning because they are not observable (miller & stoeckel, 2011) Classical conditioning is when an unconditioned stimulus and response is manipulated with a conditioned stimulus to create a conditioned response.
