Erguvan Uras

Experimental  Approaches  to Learning In addtition to epistemological theories, there are also some e xperimental   approaches to learning. These approaches can be defined as systematic and scientific  approach  to research in which the researcher manipulates one or more variables, and controls and measures any change in other variables.  The origins of behaviorist learning theories may be traced backed to the late 1800's and early 1900's with the formulation of "associationistic" principles of learning. The general goal was to derive elementary laws of learning and behavior that may then be extended to explain more complex situations.  Ebbinghaus  is considered to be the first psychologist that systematically  studied learning  and memory. He developed a system recognizing the fact that learning is always affected by prior knowledge and understanding. He conducted a series of tests on himself, which included memorization and forg...

Incredible Human Mind - How do We L earn ? Learning theories  can be defined as an organized set of principles explaining how individuals acquire, retain, and recall knowledge. In order to build a learning theory; results, means and inputs are the required components. There are different approaches to learning each representing a variety of disciplinary perspectives.  Behaviorists discuss that learning is a passive absorption and could be fully understood in terms of observable events whereas cognivitists believes that learning is an active assimilation and accommodation of new information to existing cognitive structures. The third approach, social constructivism,  argues that learning is a social enterprise and dependent on the individuals' interactions with their culture and society. Despite the differences in learning theories they all share the idea that learning causes a persisting change in human performance or perfo...