Learning Styles

Learning Styles

1. Non Associatives

   • This style of learning comes from seeing, smelling, or touching. For example: when we touch a hot surface we know it burns. Through experiences, we learn without association. 
   • Habituation
     • Our behavior changes when a stimulus level down or decreases which means we get used to the sound, smell, or feeling.
   • Sensitization
     • our stimulus level up or increases according to a sensor of smell, feeling, or touch, our behavior comes to act fast.

2. Associative

   • Associative learning is when we associate or compare two things bringing on us a reaction, caused by the pattern, and every time we see one of them we have the same reaction. for example, coffee brewing and the smell bring to whoever likes a feeling of drinking it,
   • Classical conditioning
     • When two combined situations bring a stimulus, can be conditioned and unconditioned to bring up the response.
     • conditioned stimulus
       • A conditioned stimulus is learned with the association of two patterns.  example of the dog listening to the sound of the can opener and the food itself will bring the dog to salivate.
     • unconditioned stimulus
       • The unconditioned stimulus is not learned and we can have a reaction through instinct.
   • operant conditioning
     • Learning through consequences, the behavior creates a second action apart from being good or bad. Can be reinforcement or punishment.
     • positive reinforcement
       • With positive reinforcement you teach someone else or yourself through praising, treating with good food, or money. reinforcing good behavior with a positive action brings to the individual the same reaction or a better one.
     • negative reinforcement
       • Negative reinforcement is taking away something of the individual liking, like praise food or money, to teach the person not to behave the same way again.
     • positive punishment
       • Punishment is necessary if the behavior increases out of order. to be punished in a positive way is to receive a consequence of the bad behavior.
     • negative punishment
       • A negative punishment also is a consequence of the bad behavior, but with the difference of not receiving back the privilege the person before had with no way back.

3. Watching Others

   •  A person can learn many things by watching others but there are so many things that an individual needs to put their hands on, like learning how to fly an airplane, drive a car, or even swim.
   • observational learning
     • Observational learning is when someone learns to have a different behavior through watching others succeed or fail.
   • modeling
     • Modeling is a way to teach society how they want a community or a whole country to behave. Like actors and actresses, or movies and music, they are all models of today's society.
   • Vicarious conditioning
     • This is a way people teach a behavior showing sometimes aggression, and consequences, by watching others getting rewarded or punished.