FOUR DIFFERENT

SCHOOLS
OF PSYCHOLOGY
• “Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to
think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities
for thinking about a variety of things.”
Lev Vygotsky , Readings on the Development of Children
PSYCHOLOGISTS,
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, AND TEACHERS ARE
CONTINUOUSLY QUESTIONING

• When does a person learn?

• What motivates a person to want to learn?
• What influences a person’s learning process?
FOUR DIFFERENT SCHOOLS
OF PSYCHOLOGY

• Behaviorism
• Cognitivism
• Social Constructivism
• Social Cognitivism.
• Behaviorism by B.F. Skinner explains human behavior
through observable and measured responses to stimuli within
a person’s environment.
• Cognitivism, as defined by Jean Piaget, looks at the
development of intelligence in mental and biological
classifications.
• Lev Vygotsky’s theory expands the school of cognitivism to social
constructivism and outlines learning as a process where people actively
build new concepts and discover new understandings through language and
social interaction.
• And finally, as illustrated by Albert Bandura, social cognitivism emphasizes
cognitive, self-regulatory, and self-reflective processes in acquiring
information and skills via observation, imitation, and modeling. For each of
these theorists, their learning theory is an explanation of what happens when
the process of learning takes place.