Learning Skills: Characteristics Of Learning Phychomotor Skills

output Learning psychomotor skills:

Skill learning - can be divided into two phases namely, getting an idea of the movement and fixation/diversification.

Proactive learning – happens as a result of intrinsic motivation where student takes initiative to learn more and more by utilizing available resources

Reactive learning – happens as a reaction to the influence of external motivators like compulsion from the teacher or parents

Characteristics of learning process

 Learning is unitary; the learner as a “whole person” in a unified way to the whole situation or total pattern. She response intellectually, emotionally, physically spiritually and these occur concurrently. All these dimension are harmonized and integrated towards accomplishment

Such learning is life long and permanent because a person is actively involved in the process of learning.

 Learning depends upon insight;- learning is basically a process of understand and critically analysing. learning out of rote memory is only temporary. Permanent learning is the one which a person can integrate and reproduce at any time.

Steps Involved In Learning process Stimulus

 Stimulus refers those factors that motivate or inspire or induce learners to learn the required skills and knowledge. The factors that affect the learning process must be understood by the learner. Then only they can motivate themselves to learn. Stimulus exists in the environment in which the person lives and behaves.

Response

 It means the amount of interaction by the learners. Response emphasizes that there should be a positive response from the learners with regard to learning process and program. Because the regular and timely response provides opportunity to determine the level of teaching. This also helps to explore to what extent learners are improving.

Most learning theories concentrate on the significance for the way that learning is delivered.

Behaviourist Approach to Learning

This approach to learning is based on the idea that learners respond to stimuli in their environment. The role of the learning facilitator, therefore, is to provide relevant and useful stimuli so that the learner responds to and gains the required knowledge or experience.

Cognitive Approach to Learning

Behaviourist theories of learning essentially stress the importance of the assertiveness of the tutor, and the passive participant who is not given a great deal of choice other than to respond in a predetermined way

Humanistic Approach to Learning

The more recent humanist theories take into account the way that, in our society, previously polarised views of right and wrong have dissolved into a variety of potentially equally valuable truths, i.e., a pluralistic approach. The stress on valuing diversity in many organisations and in society generally is a reflection of this ideology.

The Experiential Approach

 The experiential model of learning that David Kolb proposes, underpins much of the work of modern adult training