Theories of learning underpin teachers’ classroom practice

Initially, learning theory had generally stressed consciousness and introspection, but Behaviourists define learning as something that “people do in response to external stimuli”. (Elliot, 2007: 46). Psychologists B. F. Skinner, Pavlov and Thorndike were responsible for the development of the theory of Behaviourism in the 1920s and 1930s ... ................
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