Explain the behavior and cognitive approaches to learning. Which is most relevant to training?
Explain the behavior and cognitive approaches to learning. Which is most relevant to training? Explain
Explicar el comportamiento y los enfoques cognitivos para el aprendizaje. ¿Cuál es más relevante para el training? Explique
Whereas both cognitivism and behaviorism are both viable learning theories, cognitivism has overshadowed behaviorism as the dominant perspective. For the last two decades and more stringently at the turn of the century, behaviorism no longer holds the dominance it once held as a learning theory. Discontent with behaviorism’s “thoughtless” approach to learning, cognitivism and its subcategories of multiple intelligence, brain-based learning and learner-style learning have usurped behaviorism as the most widely acceptable and utilized theories today. While behaviorist theories explain learning in terms of strictly observable behavior with the learner as a passive recipient of knowledge through stimulus-response interaction with the environment, cognitivists view the learner as an active participant in the learning process. Cognitivist place greater interest in knowledge, meaning, intentions, feelings, creativity, expectations and thoughts as well as cognitive structures and processes such as memory, perception, problem-solving, comprehension, attention, and concept- Learning.