Learning Styles

Learning Styles

1. Non-Associative

   • Definition: A person learns about one stimulus that pertains to the external world. Example would be sight, smell or sound.
   • Habituation - When you are repeatedly exposed to a stimulus and eventually your response to that stimuli decreases.
   • Sensitization - When our behavioral response to a stimuli increase after being exposed repeatedly.

2. Associative

   • Definition: How two or more pieces of information are related or compared
   • Classical Conditioning - When we learn that one stimulus goes in hand with a different stimulus. An example would be when you smell smoke, you associate with a fire nearby.
   • Operant Conditioning - When a certain behavior leads to a specific outcome. For example, when we work out, we see changes within our body and mental health.

3. Watching others

   • Definition: Learning something new by how someone else reacts or behaves.
   • Observational Learning - When we change an attitude or behavior by watching someone else engage in same behavior.
   • Modeling - Watching behavior from someone else and imitating said behavior yourself.
   • Vicarious Conditioning - Learning to engage in a specific behavior after someone else performs same behavior and gets rewarded or punished.