When it comes to educational psychology, you find that there are three laws of learning that were formulated by E.L. Thorndike which are accepted universally and can apply in different areas of learning. These laws include the law of readiness, the law of exercise and the law of effect. This was during the early 20th century which was before other laws such as the law of primacy, the law of intensity and law of recency were added. This discussion is going to concentrate on the three laws that were introduced by E. L. Thorndike. According to the law of readiness, you find that an individual’s basic needs should be satisfied before they start learning so that they can be motivated and want to learn the task before them. When it comes to the instructors, they should try to make the task as simple as possible depending on the learners’ capabilities. This is to say that in order for a student to be motivated to read, they should see a reason behind their learning failure to which the will put aside the task. A good example is beginning flight students that normally concentrate on the control yoke during their early lessons assuming the trim control will not be of any significance until later they realize its importance. An instructor should be able to recognize teachable moments where the student is ready and willing to learn a particular task. Get to know more about the thorndike's and Laws of learning www.flightliteracy.com.
When it comes to the law of effect, that includes connections and responses and how they weaken or strengthen the connection of learning. This is to say that for learning to be effective, it has to be accompanied by a positive feeling and for it to be weakened, it will be associated with a negative feeling. Basically, this is to say that success follows success and failure follows failure and this is because positive experiences encourage an individual and motivate them to do better while negative experiences only make one lose morale and end up having feelings of avoidance. This is why it is necessary for instructors to start by giving students positive comments before they start criticizing them. Click here for more information about the thorndike's and Laws of learning.
Finally, when it comes to the law of exercise it simply means that learning is made better with the practice since the learner gets to exercise on what they have learned so that they can perfect it. In conclusion, as much as these three laws of learning formulated by E.L Thorndike were from the 20th century, they are still much applicable in today’s methods of learning.
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