Thorndike Connectionism, Watson Experiment on Albert, Skinner's Operant Conditioning, Tolman Purposive Behaviorism, Bandura's Social Learning Theory, Gestalt Psychology (include in... Thorndike Connectionism, Watson Experiment on Albert, Skinner's Operant Conditioning, Tolman Purposive Behaviorism, Bandura's Social Learning Theory, Gestalt Psychology (include insight learning and life force theory), Gagne's Conditions of Learning (search online and include 9 levels of instruction cycle), Ausubel's Subsumption Theory, Bruner's Constructivist Theory, Sternberg's Successful Intelligence Theory and WICS Model, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (search online and include the diagram) - give meaning in every theory. Read more

A summary of educational theories includes Thorndike's Connectionism, Watson's classical conditioning, Skinner's Operant Conditioning, Tolman's Purposive Behaviorism, Bandura's Social Learning Theory, among others, each explaining different facets of learning processes and motivations.

Here's a summary of each educational theory:

• Thorndike's Connectionism: Learning happens through forming associations between stimuli and responses, called connections.

• Watson's Experiment on Albert: Demonstrated classical conditioning by making a child associate a loud noise with a white rat, resulting in fear.

• Skinner's Operant Conditioning: Learning occurs via rewards and punishments that shape behavior.

• Tolman's Purposive Behaviorism: Behavior is goal-directed and organized around a purpose.

• Bandura's Social Learning Theory: Learning happens through observation, imitation, and modeling, with a focus on the role of cognition.

• Gestalt Psychology: Emphasizes understanding the whole rather than just parts; insight learning involves sudden understanding.

• Gagne's Conditions of Learning: Proposes nine instructional events to promote effective learning:

  1. Gain attention
  2. Inform learners of objectives
  3. Stimulate recall of prior learning
  4. Present stimuli with distinctive features
  5. Guide learning
  6. Elicit performance
  7. Provide feedback
  8. Assess performance
  9. Enhance retention transfer

• Ausubel's Subsumption Theory: Learning is based on the assimilation of new concepts into existing cognitive frameworks (subsumers).

• Bruner's Constructivist Theory: Emphasizes learning as an active process where learners build new ideas based on current knowledge.

• Sternberg's Successful Intelligence Theory and WICS Model: Intelligence is about balancing analytical, creative, and practical skills, encapsulated in WICS (Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity, Synthesized).

• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: A motivational theory in psychology comprising a five-tier model of human needs (often depicted as hierarchical levels) from physiological needs to self-actualization.