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Which statement best describes the behaviourist approach to learning?
The behaviourist approach sees learning as conditioning, where behaviour is shaped by stimuli and reinforced by rewards or consequences. It differs from cognitive theory, which stresses mental processing, and from Kolb's cycle, which focuses on experience and reflection.
- ALearning occurs through conditioning, with behaviour shaped by reinforcement and consequencesCorrect
- BLearning occurs mainly through internal mental processing and insight
- CLearning is a cycle of experience, reflection, theory and experiment
- DLearning is determined by the learner's preferred style alone
Explanation
Behaviourism holds that learning is a change in behaviour produced by stimulus, response and reinforcement. Internal mental processing is the cognitive view, and the experience-reflection cycle describes Kolb's experiential model.
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