Learning Theory
Angeli Christine A. Pacatang 02/20/13
PSYC 47 – YB
MY PERSONAL LEARNING THEORY
(Outward Appearance Theory) This theory is based from my hobbies, my personal experiences, and experiences told by my family and close friends. The environment was also helpful; I gained observations from what is happening around me. I am not going to say that this theory is all original since before coming up with this, I studied other existing theories and I got a lot of ideas from them on what to write. I was able to incorporate and relate what I learned into my personal life. I gained a lot of insights and realized a lot of things. Theories that I got ideas from are many and varied. But the major theory that I based from is the paradigm of Behaviorism, particularly Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning. I decided on this theory because I think it is easy to base it on my hobbies and observations. Citing examples would not be difficult. Most of my learning motivations and what I have observed from others are based largely on rewards and punishments or something similar to those. I believe most people would be able to relate to this theory and I also thought it would be fun and interesting to connect my hobbies to something educational and related to my course.
My learning theory, as suggested by the title, is all about outward appearances and how things seem and look on the outside. Basically, my theory states that how a thing, person, or event looks on the outside, influences the person’s motivation to learn that certain thing.
There are 3 major things that get our attention and these are objects, people, and events. Because of how a certain object looks, we are either tempted to look at it or ignore it. For example, a shiny and expensive-looking watch with jewels on it would catch our attention and is far more tempting for us to come near and look at it compared to an ordinary
PSYC 47 – YB
MY PERSONAL LEARNING THEORY
(Outward Appearance Theory) This theory is based from my hobbies, my personal experiences, and experiences told by my family and close friends. The environment was also helpful; I gained observations from what is happening around me. I am not going to say that this theory is all original since before coming up with this, I studied other existing theories and I got a lot of ideas from them on what to write. I was able to incorporate and relate what I learned into my personal life. I gained a lot of insights and realized a lot of things. Theories that I got ideas from are many and varied. But the major theory that I based from is the paradigm of Behaviorism, particularly Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning. I decided on this theory because I think it is easy to base it on my hobbies and observations. Citing examples would not be difficult. Most of my learning motivations and what I have observed from others are based largely on rewards and punishments or something similar to those. I believe most people would be able to relate to this theory and I also thought it would be fun and interesting to connect my hobbies to something educational and related to my course.
My learning theory, as suggested by the title, is all about outward appearances and how things seem and look on the outside. Basically, my theory states that how a thing, person, or event looks on the outside, influences the person’s motivation to learn that certain thing.
There are 3 major things that get our attention and these are objects, people, and events. Because of how a certain object looks, we are either tempted to look at it or ignore it. For example, a shiny and expensive-looking watch with jewels on it would catch our attention and is far more tempting for us to come near and look at it compared to an ordinary