I have always been fascinated with the way the brain works. Before taking the course on human learning, I never put much thought into how a person learns, or even what learning is. Once someone takes the time to understand the brain and how it works, then that person can begin to understand the many psychological theories about learning. The study of psychology in itself is a hard enough topic for someone to wrap their head around. To fully understand the way learning is conducted one must first understand the brain and the ways information can be retained; I found this out the hard way. Since I am a future educator, the learning process is very important to me. To understand my personal learning theory one must first know about all the
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This theory focuses on what and how people learn from one another. The aspect of this theory that I can relate to is that people can learn by observing the behaviors of others, as well as observing the outcomes of those behaviors. The idea of learning through models is another I see a lot in everyday life. When observing young children I see one get in trouble for doing something bad, and then the others know not to do that behavior because they too will get into trouble. The model principle of the social learning theory is a classic example of how psychology enlightens …show more content…
This broad theory explains how people perceive, interpret, remember, and in other ways think about environmental events. One specific perspective of this theory that I feel strongly about is Gestalt psychology. Gestalt’s basic ideas include: perception is often different form reality, the whole is more than the sum of its parts, an organism structures and organizes experience, the organism is predisposed to organize experience in certain ways, learning follows the law of Pragnanz, and problem solving involves restructuring and insight. All of these ideas sum up Gestalt’s psychological view of learning, and I believe the whole is more than the sum of its parts is the most important. This proves that learning is being completed because for someone to understand a whole, that person must also learn all of the parts; but to have all of the parts together to make the whole then proves that person learned all of that and can now change and apply the whole or parts to other
This theory focuses on what and how people learn from one another. The aspect of this theory that I can relate to is that people can learn by observing the behaviors of others, as well as observing the outcomes of those behaviors. The idea of learning through models is another I see a lot in everyday life. When observing young children I see one get in trouble for doing something bad, and then the others know not to do that behavior because they too will get into trouble. The model principle of the social learning theory is a classic example of how psychology enlightens …show more content…
This broad theory explains how people perceive, interpret, remember, and in other ways think about environmental events. One specific perspective of this theory that I feel strongly about is Gestalt psychology. Gestalt’s basic ideas include: perception is often different form reality, the whole is more than the sum of its parts, an organism structures and organizes experience, the organism is predisposed to organize experience in certain ways, learning follows the law of Pragnanz, and problem solving involves restructuring and insight. All of these ideas sum up Gestalt’s psychological view of learning, and I believe the whole is more than the sum of its parts is the most important. This proves that learning is being completed because for someone to understand a whole, that person must also learn all of the parts; but to have all of the parts together to make the whole then proves that person learned all of that and can now change and apply the whole or parts to other