Robert Gagne’s Cumulative Learning

 

Robert Gagne’s Cumulative Learning

 

Cumulative Learning

-       Any task or skill can be broken down to simpler skills which ca still be further broken down to simpler task or skills

 

Learning Hierarchy

 

·         Signal Learning

-       Responding to signal, response is conditioned

 

·         Stimulus-Response Learning

-       Voluntary response is learned

 

·         Chaining/Motor Learning

-       Two or more separate motor/verbal responses may be combined or chained to develop a more complex response

 

·         Verbal Association Learning

-       Verbal connections are used to create association.

 

·         Discrimination Learning

-       Learner selects or distinguishes a response which applies to stimuli

 

·         Concept Learning

-       Gives common response to an entire class of stimuli

 

·         Principle Learning or Rule Learning

-       Involves combining and relating concepts

 

·         Problem Solving

-       Considered the most complex condition that leas to discovery of higher order rules