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Published: November 12, 2006
This
paper explains that the major theorists of
learning are: J.B. Watson and J.F. Skinner, behaviorists; Jean Piaget, cognitive theorist; Leo Vygotsky, social theorist; Albert Bandura, social learning theorist; and more recently, George Miller, the theory of information processing. The author points out that children's natural curiosity to learn helped psychologists realize that learning was more than just developing observable behavior and that it did involve thinking processes. The paper relates that the information
processing theory likens the human to a computer; information taken in by the senses is stored in short-term memory and put into long-term memory only if this information is used and practiced.
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