Reflection week 5

For this week 5, we learned about the psychological foundation of curriculum which is topic 4. This topic covered about three major theories of learning which is behaviourist, cognitive-information processing theories, and phenomonological and humanistic.

Before we learn and understand about the three learning theories, we have to understand what is the definition of the psychology.

Psychology - concerned with the question of how people learn. It provide basic for understanding the teaching and learning process.

The three major theories of learning:
1. Behaviourist
    - Deals with various aspect of stimulus-response and reinforces.
2. Cognitive- information processing theories
    - View the learner in relationship to the total environment and consider the way the learner applies
       information.
3. Phenomological and humanistic
    - consider the whole child including his or her social, psychological, and cognitive development.

Behavioral psychology

Edward Thorndike
- focused on his work on testing the relationship between stimulus and a response (classical conditioning)

James Watson
- leaning was based on the science of behaviour.
- what was observable and measureable.

Skinner
- believes in both positives and negative reinforcement.

Cognitive-information processing

Phenomonological and humanistic

Maslow's Human needs hierarchy
- psychological needs
- safety needs
- love and belonging needs
- esteem needs
- self actualization







After our class dismissed, my group going to library and discuss about our assignment. We divided the task and will be combined after we all do our part.