PSYCH212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Internal Control, Applied Behavior Analysis, Classical Conditioning
4 Mar 2014
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Chapter 7: behavioural and social cognitive approaches to teaching and learning. Learning is a relatively permanent change in behaviour that occurs through experience. Behaviourism is the view that behaviour should be explained by experiences that can be directly observed, not by mental processes. Mental processes are thoughts, feelings and motives that each of us experiences but that cannot be observed by others. Emphasizes associative learning, which two events are connected or associated. Classical conditioning, operant conditioning and applied behaviour analysis are behavioural view that emphasize associative learning. Social cognitive approach, emphasize how behaviour, environment and person factors interact to influence learning. Cognitive information processing, how individuals process information through attention, memory, thinking and other cognitive processes. Cognitive constructivist, emphasized learner"s cognitive construction of knowledge. Social constructivist, focuses on collaboration with others to produce knowledge and understanding and understanding. A type of learning in which an organism learns to connect or associate stimuli.
