What is Learning Principles

In our second discussion of our class we tackle about “What is Learning Principles” in my understanding in the previews know about learning it is a modification of behavior through existing knowledge, skills, values, and may involve synthesizing different types of information. Generally, it is described as the process of having one’s behavior modified, more or less permanently, by what happens in the world around him by what he observes. In Educational psychologists and pedagogues have identified several principles of learning, also referred to as laws of learning, which seem generally applicable to the learning process. These principles have been discovered, tested, and used in practical situations. 

They provide additional insight into what makes people learn most effectively. Edward Thorndike developed the first three "Laws of learning:" readiness, exercise, and effect. Since Thorndike set down his basic three laws in the early part of the twentieth century, five additional principles have been added: primacy, recency, intensity, freedom and requirement. And the reporter tells us about the theories of learning: Behaviorist theory, Organismic and Gestalt and field theories. Behaviorist theory is an individual transfers what he has learned form one situation to another situation only if two are still similar in content and procedures. Organismic and Gestalt and field theories is a man only learn through his own responds, in creating to his own world and learning is essentially an active process of selecting and organizing.