Saturday, September 20, 2014

Examples of Each Five Major Categories of Learning


Examples: 

Categories of Learning
Examples:
Verbal information
1.       This refers to the organized bodies of knowledge that we acquire. They may be classified as names, facts, principles, and generalizations.
2.       Verbal information is referred to as declarative knowledge, or knowing that.
3.       The performance or learning outcome achieved through verbal information is the ability of being able to state in a meaningful sentence what was learned.
Motor skill
1.       Motor skills are the precise, smooth, and accurately timed execution of movements involving the use of muscles.
2.       They are a distinct type of learning outcome and necessary to the understanding of the range of possible human performances.
3.       Learning situations that involve motor skills are learning to write, playing a musical instrument, playing sports, and driving a car.
Attitude
1.       Choices of action (behaviors) made by individuals are influenced significantly by attitudes.
2.       An attitude towards the disposal of trash will influence how a person disposes of pop cans, food containers, organics, etc.
3.       An attitude towards music will influence the choice of music an individual will listen to.
Intellectual skill
1.       Intellectual skills involve the use of symbols such as numbers and language to interact with the environment.
2.       They involve knowing how to do something rather than knowing that about something.
3.       Intellectual skills require an ability to carry out actions.
Cognitive strategy
1.       Cognitive strategies refer to the process that learners guide their learning, remembering, and thinking.
2.       A learner uses cognitive strategies in thinking about what was learned and in solving problems. They are the ways a learner manages the processes of learning, remembering, and thinking.
3.       The performance or learning outcome achieved through cognitive strategies is having the ability to create something new such as creating an efficient system for cataloging computer discs.
 

 

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