Importance of Applicable Theories and Principles of Acquiring Knowledge and Communication

This essay aims at discussing the importance of applicable theories together with the principles of acquiring knowledge and communicating. The paper will psycho-analyze the theories of learning, it will aspire to recognize the discourse and the relationship that occurs between tutoring and theories involved in learning and develops new approaches to meliorate teaching. In addition, the paper will include the significance of these tactics and how they advance inclusive learning.

A theory is a thought or a series of thoughts that are meant to make intelligible explanations for issues and facts. It is a thought that has been proposed or introduced which has a possibility of being reliable but has not yet been proven to be true (Brown, 2000). According to research carried out, there are three major theories relating to this study and they include;

1.     The Humanist  School

2.     The Behaviorist  School

3.     The Cognitivist School

It is a theory that mainly concentrates on subjectively evident conduct while disregarding self-governing processes of the brain. Scientists give a description of learning as the acquiring of brand new conduct depending on the surroundings'. According to Wilson (2009), "Behavior is learned from things seen around them or from the environment, or that individuals respond to stimuli and that learning and the ability to learn requires a change in behavior."

The background of behaviorism originates from Wilhelm Wundt who claimed that studying knowingness was the main entity of psychology. However, this theory was mainly self-examining, meaning it relied majorly on experiences accounted for by individuals’ (Wilson, 2009). Scientists such as J.B. Watson disapproved this method; instead, he focused on subjectively evident, measured behavior and occurrences. Watson's work was from experiments he conducted on Iva Pavlov, form this experiments he was able to establish that psychology was interested in behavior from learning.

The environment is a major determinant and that individuals tend to conduct themselves in a scrupulous manner if the action has been honored thus it recurs. Skinner (2009) claims that providing straight away feedback whether in favor or not of the action makes the person act in a particular manner. If the feedback was positive, it encourages a future recurrence of the action, otherwise, if it is negative, it influences the individual to act differently. Pessimistic reactions get "stamped-out" while the positive ones get "stamped-in".

Psychologists confirm that actions are as a result of previous outcomes, it comes from the thought that individuals tend to act in a certain way due to outcomes that occurred in the past (Knowles, 2014). Thus, this emphasizes the rationality of why students are inclined to behave in particular ways in class because of the past not so good experiences regarding education.

Behaviorism can also be analyzed in the context of "ABC" meaning "Antecedent Behavior Consequences"....