Educational Psychology

Learning is extremely complex, but understanding the cognitive views of learning helps us to understand how the brain works and how we learn.  The cognitive view says that knowledge is learned, and changes in knowledge make changes in behavior possible.  This view also suggests that one of the most important elements in the learning process is knowledge that the individual brings to the learning situation.  The brain impacts and is impacted by learning.  Memory also plays an important role in learning, however memory can be just as complex as learning. The video below helps us to understand how the memory works: As the video explains a lot of information we come in contact with is forgotten.  Both the sensory memory and short-term memory forget a lot of information, and can only store a small amount of information at a time.  Our brains function much like a computer functions. According to an article by Sarah Mae Sincero (2011),  https:...

Learning is not as simple as some may think and it's definition is not always agreed upon.  However, most would agree that learning occurs when experience causes a change in a person's knowledge or behavior.  People learn in different ways.  Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist, discovered classic conditioning.   Classic conditioning focuses on the learning of involuntary emotional or physiological responses such as fear, increased muscle tension, salivation, or sweating.  Although B.F. Skinner, an American psychologist,  had another concept, operant conditioning.   Operant conditioning is learning to behave in certain ways strengthened or weakened by consequences or antecedents.   The short video below will describe the difference between classic and operant conditioning and how they work. In an article written by Kendra Cherry (2017), https://www.verywell.com/classical-vs-operant-conditioning-2794861 ,  she explains...