CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

LEARNING THEORIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following describes David Ausubel’s Learning Theory?
A
Learning of new knowledge relies on what is already known.
B
Advocates the use of advance organizers as a mechanism to help to link new learning material with existing related ideas.
C
Meaningful learning involves a recognition of the links between concepts and thus, has the privilege of being transferred to long-term memory.
D
All of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Definition. Ausubel’s theory is concerned with how individuals learn large amounts of meaningful material from verbal/textual presentations in a school setting (in contrast to theories developed in the context of laboratory experiments).

Detailed explanation-2: -Ausubel’s Subsumption Theory gives you the ability to create a meaningful connection between new ideas and pre-existing knowledge, so that your learners gain the opportunity to remember the key takeaways and get the most benefit out of your eLearning course.

Detailed explanation-3: -Basically, this theory holds to the fact that students learn better when they are connecting information with previous experience. Rather than adding in random facts of information, we are constantly building a bigger structure in our mind.

Detailed explanation-4: -There are five primary educational learning theories: behaviorism, cognitive, constructivism, humanism, and connectivism.

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