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Learning theories are conceptual frameworks describing how information is absorbed, processed, and retained during learning.Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in how understanding, or a world view, is acquired or changed and knowledge and skills retained.Behaviorists look at learning as an aspect of conditioning and will advocate a system of rewards and targets in education.ognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in how understanding, or a world view, is acquired or changed and knowledge and skills retained. Behaviorists look at learning as an aspect of conditioning and will advocate a system of rewards and targets in education.
No notes for slide. 1  1. Learning theory (education)Learning theories are conceptual frameworks that describe how information is absorbed,processed, and retained during learning. Gestalt views of learning have been incorporated into what have come to belabeled cognitive theories. 2  Two key assumptions underlie this cognitive approach: that thememory system is an active organized processor of information and that prior knowledge playsan important role in learning.