Comparison/Contrast Paper
by
Linda Wiggins
EDD 8124 CRN 20740
Theories of Learning
Nova Southeastern University
October 4, 2015
Introduction
The issue of education has always been topical for people. It helps to impart knowledge
from one generation to another and due to this process humanity managed to accumulate a
great number of different knowledge. Being so important, the issue of education was studied
by many different people. They tried to determine the way in which a person obtains
knowledge and what conditions will be the best for a pupil to become successful and process
all the information given. There were many attempts to find the answer to these questions and
due to this fact numerous theories of learning appeared (Hemwall & Trachte, 2005). Thus,
traditionally there are two theories which are considered to be the most influential ones and
which have many adherers. These theories are behavioral and cognitive theories of learning.
The purpose of this work is to determine differences and similarities of behavioral and
cognitive theories of learning and understand whether they could be used in online
