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A good theory should provide explanations of phenomena as well as guidelines for action. But theories about human behavior also carry with them assumptions about human nature, the purpose of education, and desirable values.

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Because doing so will increase your understanding of the range of learning theories, and your chances for achieving your desired results.

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A theory can be a guiding set of assumptions, an orderin system that nearly summarizes the facts, and/or assumptions, generalizations, and hypotheses.

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Education is an activity undertaken or initiated by one or more agents that is designed to effect changes in the knowledge, skill, and attitudes of individuals, groups, or communities.

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The term learning, by contrast, emphasizes the person in whom the change occurs or is expected to occur. Learning is the act or process by which behavioral change, knowledge, skills, and attitudes are acquired.

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Benchmark of the nature of Intellectual Growth #1

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Benchmark of the nature of Intellectual Growth #1

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Growth is characterized by increasing independence of response from the inmediate nature of the stimulus.

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Benchmark of the nature of Intellectual Growth #2

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Benchmark of the nature of Intellectual Growth #2

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Growth depends upon internalizing events into a "storage system" that corresponds to the environment.

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Benchmark of the nature of Intellectual Growth #3

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Benchmark of the nature of Intellectual Growth #3

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Intellectual growth involves an increasing capacity to say yo oneself and others, by means of words or symbols, what one has done or what one will do.

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Benchmark of the nature of Intellectual Growth #4

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Benchmark of the nature of Intellectual Growth #4

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Intellectual development depends upon a systematic and contingent interaction between a tutor and a learner.

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Benchmark of the nature of Intellectual Growth #5

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Benchmark of the nature of Intellectual Growth #5

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Teaching is vastly facilitated by the medium of language, which ends by being not only the medium for exchange but the instrument that the learner can then use himself in bringing order into the environment.

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Benchmark of the nature of Intellectual Growth #6

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Benchmark of the nature of Intellectual Growth #6

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Intellectual development is marked by increasing capacity to deal with several alternatives simultaneously, to tend to several sequences durgin the same period of time, and to allocate time and attention in a manner appropiate to these multiple demands.

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1. Personal involvement
2. Self-initiation
3. Pervasiveness
4. Evaluation by the learner
5. Its essence is meaning