Learning Methods
...process of retaining memory. Secondly we will present two learning styles, Visual Auditory Reading Kinaesthetic also called VARK as well as Honey and Mumford and analyze their different methodologies and finally we will discuss how those methods can be applied to my own past and future experiences.
Chapter One
Physiology of learning
Generally speaking, physiology of learning is commonly known as something arising from the stimulation of neurons in the brain. Current understanding of neurons and the central nervous system involve that the process of learning corresponds to changes in the relationship between certain neurons in the brain. Research is constant in this area.
Generally, however, it is recognized that retaining memory is easier when multiple parts of the brain (such as hearing, seeing, smelling, motor skills, touch sense, and logical thinking lobes; informal names given) are stimulated.
Types of learning
Habituation
In psychology, habituation is an example of non-associative learning in which there is a progressive reduction of behavioral answer probability with repetition of a motivation. It is another form of integration.
“An animal first responds to a stimulus, but if it is neither rewarding nor harmful the animal reduces subsequent responses. One example of this can be seen in small song birds - if a stuffed owl (or similar predator) is put into the cage, the birds initially react to it as though it were a real predator. Soon the birds react less, showing habituation. If another stuffed owl is introduced (or the same one removed and re-introduced), the birds react to it as though it were a predator, showing that it is only a very specific stimulus that is habituated to (namely, one particular unmoving owl in one place). Habituation has been shown in essentially every species of animal, including the large protozoan”
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