Chapter 1:

NATURE OF LEARNING

Prepared by: Rizabel G. Salvatierra

Learning

is a modification of behavior through experience and training. it is a growth and development process. the need arises, goal is set-up, adjustment begins, and behavioral charges take place and

stabilize.

There are three Phases of Learning:

a) Practice or learning itself.

b) A time delay.

c) Performance test of what was learned.

Learning occurs in predictable cycles. When something new is taught, there are many steps that the learner must go through before the new skill becomes "natural."

Theories of Learning

- are conceptual frameworks that describe how information is absorbed, processed, and retained during learning.

Shared activity provides a meaningful social context for learning…Social interaction provides support in a physical sense as well as a motivational sense…Through talking and communicating, the gaps and flaws in one’s thinking become explicit and accessible to correction…thought becomes sequential and visible to the thinker.