CBLE Blog week 3
CBLE Blog week 3
Learning theories In this lesson, we were looking into learning methods and theories, the class was split into groups to research, and I was tasked with looking into the bobo doll experiment in 1963. In a nut shell two groups of children were shown an inflatable clown doll and given an opportunity to play with it. The control group of children were sent in to play with the doll with no instruction of how to play with it, and the children played with it for a short while before losing interest.
The test group was sent in to play with the bobo but first they were shown an adult playing roughly with the doll bouncing it hard and hitting it with his fists. The test group of children were then sent in. In this case the children played aggressively with the toy and for a far longer time than the control group. The test was designed to test Bandura’s social learning theory. The theory states that people learn through observing and imitation.
This test proved that people do not only learn by reward and punishment (known as behaviourism) but by observational learning. These were important experiments because they opened the doors for more research into observational learning such as other more recent studies like how children can be influenced from watching violent media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=128Ts5r9NRE
In other research for the application I came across this video on YouTube from the Veritiasium science channel, The science of thinking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVV8pch1dM&t=3s This looks into the science on how the brain’s systems work in short the brain used two systems to think; one is slow and methodical (this system is used to learn new skills) the other is fast but less accurate (muscle memory). This is why the brain can be tricked easily with seemingly easy questions. For example questions like: What do you put in a toaster? Or what do cows drink? If only the fast system is engaged, the individual might answer toast or milk, which are obviously the wrong answers, but the brain only picks up on the information it thinks it needs and answers accordingly. In the video, it goes into exercises where the user is shown a four digit number and asked to remember the number. This is then removed and the user is asked to add one or more digits to the number they have remembered, this task requires the use of both the brain’s systems. I found this a very interesting concept to play around with, but more thought will be required as to how to make this fun or appeal to children. Links to the videos will be placed on the group wiki for week 3.
Learning theories In this lesson, we were looking into learning methods and theories, the class was split into groups to research, and I was tasked with looking into the bobo doll experiment in 1963. In a nut shell two groups of children were shown an inflatable clown doll and given an opportunity to play with it. The control group of children were sent in to play with the doll with no instruction of how to play with it, and the children played with it for a short while before losing interest.
The test group was sent in to play with the bobo but first they were shown an adult playing roughly with the doll bouncing it hard and hitting it with his fists. The test group of children were then sent in. In this case the children played aggressively with the toy and for a far longer time than the control group. The test was designed to test Bandura’s social learning theory. The theory states that people learn through observing and imitation.
This test proved that people do not only learn by reward and punishment (known as behaviourism) but by observational learning. These were important experiments because they opened the doors for more research into observational learning such as other more recent studies like how children can be influenced from watching violent media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=128Ts5r9NRE
In other research for the application I came across this video on YouTube from the Veritiasium science channel, The science of thinking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVV8pch1dM&t=3s This looks into the science on how the brain’s systems work in short the brain used two systems to think; one is slow and methodical (this system is used to learn new skills) the other is fast but less accurate (muscle memory). This is why the brain can be tricked easily with seemingly easy questions. For example questions like: What do you put in a toaster? Or what do cows drink? If only the fast system is engaged, the individual might answer toast or milk, which are obviously the wrong answers, but the brain only picks up on the information it thinks it needs and answers accordingly. In the video, it goes into exercises where the user is shown a four digit number and asked to remember the number. This is then removed and the user is asked to add one or more digits to the number they have remembered, this task requires the use of both the brain’s systems. I found this a very interesting concept to play around with, but more thought will be required as to how to make this fun or appeal to children. Links to the videos will be placed on the group wiki for week 3.
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