Types of Learning Styles: Julia Matson

Types of Learning Styles: Julia Matson

1. Non-Associative

   • Habituation
     • When our behavioral response to a stimulus decreases
   • Sensitization
     • When our behavioral response to a stimulus increases

2. Associative

   • Operant Conditioning
     • When we learn that a behavior leads to a certain outcome
   • Classical Conditioning
     • When we learn that a stimulus predicts another stimulus

3. Watching Others

   • Observational Learning
     • When we learn or change a behavior after watching a person engage in that behavior
   • Vicarious Conditioning
     • Learning to engage in a behavior or not, after seeing others being rewarded or punished for performing that action
   • Modeling
     • Displaying a behavior that imitates a previously observed behavior