This article throws light upon the top five theories of learning. The theories are: 1. Watson’s Behaviourism in Learning Theory 2. Pavlov’s Contribution to Learning Theory 3. Guthrie’s Contiguous Conditioning Theory 4. Skinner’s Operant Conditioning Theory 5. Hull’s Deductive Theory. Theory of Learning # 1. Watson’s Behaviourism in Learning Theory: Early in the twentieth century […]
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Learning Theory by B. F. Skinner
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Skinner is characterized as a radical behaviourist. His theory ignores internal psychic processes and focuses on the relationship of behaviour to external environment. For Skinner, behaviour is a result of its consequences. This means that the perceived consequences of behaviour determine the degree to which that behaviour is likely to reoccur. Skinner’s model engenders the […]
Erik Erikson’s Neo-Freudian Theory of Personality
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After reading this article you will learn about Erik Erikson’s Neo-Freudian theory of personality. Since Freud’s death, Erikson—more than any other person —has performed the function of continuing Freud’s idea of personality and its development. Erikson considers himself a Freudian psychoanalyst. But he is more popularly known as a neo-Freudian after Carl Jung and Alfred […]