How do adults learn
... We learn a variety of skills and our learning has a significant bearing on our emotional reactions, our perceptions and our physiological responses . Learning according to Passer and Smith [2001:228] is a process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organisms behaviour or capabilities In the following essay I will consider HOW we learn as adults in light of the behaviorist/social learning, humanistic and information processing perspectives, as well as those of the psychologist Howard Gardner and that the duo Kolb and Fry. The behaviourist model suggests that we learn through receiving stimuli from our environment that provoke a response. ... He quotes Plato from 2500 years ago : Through education we need to help students find pleasure in what they have to learn. ... In this visual and auditory age of television many who have literacy problems can and do learn through debates on television and radio.