... teacher can also learn from us, as we all have different experiences of life however long or short. This is all thanks to a new way of learning from psychologist who have become renowned for their work and ideas of what motivated people to learn. Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) was born in Russia and studied medicine, receiving a degree in 1893. Pavlov believed that the environment controlled behaviour. He researched may ways of classical conditioning, as it was called, and found that learning is strengthened by repetition, and being in an environment with a lot of stimuli we respond to these as a process of learning. Babkin, Boris P, Pavlov A biography, Chicago: University of Chicago press When I started school this was done by my teacher constantly repeating everyday the ABC. By repetition I learned it and now I can recite it automatically. The same was done with the times table a few ...

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